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RE: horizontal partitioning of table

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You can use a Partitioned View. You would create two tables each with a check constraint on the year column. Then you create a view unioning the two tables together with a union all. The optimizer is smart enough when selecting to select from the correct table if you supply year in the where clause. […]

2003-05-28

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RE: Computer lazy after error on programming with SQL

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Dear Gurus Well, I do think all those (good!) tips can conduct us to a ..."salomonic" idea -- that I'll try (needless to say) just if-and-when that never-ending-loop happens again...: - That's to say: 1º - disconnect IIS; 2º - close IE; 3º - (re)open IE; and 4º - (re)connect IIS. It worths a try!, […]

2003-05-12

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RE: increasing number of bytes per row

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I thought I remembered this one, from SQL Server Magazine UPDATE, May 3 2001... * TIP: MAXIMUM ROW SIZE (contributed by Richard Waymire, rwaymi@microsoft.com) Q. How can I find out the maximum row size for a table in which all the varchars are fully populated? A. The only way to find a SQL Server table's […]

2003-05-12

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RE: Comparing specific rows in 2 tables

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insert into ##temptable select relevant.columns from table1 inner join table2 on pk1 = pk2 where table1.createdate = yesterday and (table1.col1 <> table2.col1 or table1.col2 <> table2.col2 or ... ) You will then have all of the data needed for your email easily accessable.

2003-05-06

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RE: import_failure

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Hi, How about setting the colum type for this column as something like varchar(20) during import and then using the convert(datetime) function to convert this varchar value into a datetime value... -- whoops...the convert datetime for a value like 050203 will convert it to '2005-02-03'...I assume that you need it to be converted to something […]

2003-05-02

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