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RE: Finding EM diagram name by the name of the table which is included in it

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The table names are in the dtproperties table, but they're hard to get at.This is a crude attempt.  I tried to filter out the table names, but sometimes they have an extra garbage character as a prefix.  This code assumes that all table names are made up of regular ASCII characters, and that all dtproperties tables in […]

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2004-09-02

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RE: A tale of two where clauses...

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It always annoys me when I see a newsgroup thread somewhere about a problem I am having, and the conversation stops before the problem is found or the resolution is posted. I will say that I recieved much better support and ideas from this forum than the MSDN Managed discussion groups. Thanks for trying everyone!

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2004-08-20

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RE: Truncate vs delete

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If you want to remove all the data from a table, use TRUNCATE TABLE because its damn fast. The transaction log will just contain the TRUNCATE TABLE command.If you use DELETE FROM then the transaction log contains a record for EVERY ROW in the table, a slower process.

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2004-08-20

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Masking an amount

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Hello to all. I have a DTS job that creates a flat text file including an amout field (money) when the column is written into the text file it has to be maked as follows:1. Amonut 25.23 or 485.562. Mask should be: 0000002523 (ten characters with leading zeros and no decimal point)   or 0000048556I did masked […]

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2004-06-08

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Newby SQL Admin. Need Licence Info. for 6 servers

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Hello AllI have been SELECT_ed the new SQL Admin. for the office.I need help finding licence info. on 6 server running Sybase SQL 4(I think), SQL6.5, 7 and 2000.I need to know the Licence number, type of Licence(CAL, Per Processor), and the amount I have.  Once I have this info. I can assess the amount of new […]

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2004-06-08

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