RE: Triggers on system tables
It's highly frowned upon and could cause problems. In SQL Server 7, triggers on system tables were not guarenteed to fire. I'd setup a job that runs every hour to look for this.
2004-11-30
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RE: Query to Post Results to View
You'd need a union for each column. ie:CREATE VIEW [dbo].[NiceChildren] As, SELECT [ID], Child1 FROM [dbo].[Children] UNION ALL SELECT [ID], Child2 FROM [dbo].[Children] UNION ALL SELECT [ID], Child3 FROM [dbo].[Children] UNION ALL SELECT [ID], Child4 FROM [dbo].[Children]
2004-11-15
RE: Bckup, Append or overwrite?
1. You could give our product, MiniSQLBackup, a try. It can generate smaller backups for you.2. If you set to overwrite, that means you will only have the latest backup. If you consistently copy this backup file to another location/server and tag them accordingly, it should be fine.3. tempdb grows usually because of temporary workspace needed for sorts […]
2004-09-22
Controlling Sybase Infomaker via another application?
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2004-09-16
RE: Dts-import fails -Exception access violation
If you are running the DTS package as a job, your SQL agent needs access to the operating system file. That means your sql agent must be started with windows authentication.
2004-08-26
RE: Exporting Database Diagrams to Visio
sorry for visioYou can reverse-engineer it from within visio.New DatabaseModelDiagram database\reverse engineer (you may have to create and odbc-dsn to get connected)
2004-02-06
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Question of the Day for 27 Jan 2004
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2004-01-29
RE: Problem with Query
I changed your query a little. select t.name as tablename , c.name as columnname , isnull(p.name,'''') as ConstraintName, case p.xtype When 'PK' Then 'Primary Key' When 'C' Then 'Check' When 'UQ' Then 'Unique' When 'F' Then 'Foreign Key' When 'TR' Then 'Trigger' When 'D' Then 'Default' Else '' End As ConstraintType from sysobjects t join […]
2003-08-21
RE: How to drop IDENTITY
Well, I could just add another column to that table , copy data from the IDENTITY column into it, drop the DIENTITY column and recreate it, then copy data back and drop the extra column. But to do that I would need to drop all FK as well. It gets too complicated. Thanks anyway.
2003-07-02
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RE: Select statement
Give us an example of the data including things you wouldn't see. From that what you expect to be returned and how you determine that is what you want. That will give us a better idea as to how to help.
2003-05-27
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