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Custom Alerts

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Is there a way to customize alerts? There seems to be if I look at Type: SQL Server performance condition alert Object: SQL Server: User Settable Counter: Query Instance: User counter 1, User counter 2, etc. on up to User counter 10. How do I define User counter 1? Robert Marda

2002-03-15

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BCP Error

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Help! Simple question about a bcp I am running, but got an error message. Sample bcp: BCP 'DBsta..vWeb_Tab_Date' out 'StatusReportDate.txt' -c -S'Mickey' -U'DonaldDuck' -P'Daisy' DBsta = DB name vWeb_Tab_Date = View name StatusReportDate.txt = text file Mickey = server for test purposes donalduck = test user daisy = test password What it does is: It […]

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2002-03-08

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SQL registration on renamed server

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We have SQL server 7 installed on a server. We rename the server. Do we have to re-register SQL server or does it automatically use the new name? Any help is appreciated.

2002-03-04

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Referral Program

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Hello, PLEASE GIVE ME A SOLUTION IM AM USING SQLSERVER 7.0 i have a table which contains the following fields namely refererid,code,name this is just like a referral program a guy can refer 3 guys under him i.e, 3 is referring three guys namely 4 5 8 similarly 4 is referring 9 10 and 11 […]

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2002-02-28

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Changing Destination name

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I have a simple dts package, taking a textfile into SQL table, then outputting the results to Foxpro table for remote distrabution the problem is that the original txt file name changes every day FILEMMDDYY, and the foxpro table should be the same FOXMMDDYY can this be done without intervention as i would like it […]

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2002-02-22

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changing sa password

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I am running Sql 2000 in Active/Active mode. I need to change the sa password. Is that as simple as going into Enterprise Mgr and changing the password like any other user and do this in both instances of SQL? Thanks, Tracy

2002-02-21

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User defined function

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I am converting an Access database into SQL, and am totally stuck on some queries that required the user to input criteria in the Access version. I know I need to write a user defined function for this, but not sure how. Below is one of the simple Access queries that I need to convert […]

2002-02-18

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text deliminator not found

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I have a CSV file of 105k records that when I used DTS, BCP or BULK INSERT the data does not import correctly. The file is formated like ,,,"text",,"text" and so on.. when building a DTS Package I select the row as LF and the Text Deliminator as " and I immediately get a message […]

2002-02-13

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