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RE: DTS date stamp

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I got rid of the apostrophes, but I'm a little confused at the connection name,  Where do I find the connection name?  I have a "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL" and a "Text File (Destination)".What am I not looking at properly?  I feel like such a goose.Thanks heaps in advance.

2004-07-12

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Schedule a Stored Procedure To Email?

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Hello,I believe this is possible but I need to export all (SELECT * ) data from one TABLE  and schedule an email to send every morning. Is this possible? I would like to create a stored procedure likeCREATE PROC dbo.CustomersASSELECT *FROM tblCustomersI would like this sproc Customers run a DTS every morning and email it to […]

2004-07-08

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RE: Arggh! Quad Xeon only using one processor for SQL Server - why?

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Not a solution but you can test for parallelism by querying as:Select * from reasonablylargetable option (maxdop X) where X is the number of processors you would like used. If you specify a query which is likely to work the processors harder that would be better.Just watch the processor utilisation as you vary X.DB

2004-07-08

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RE: VBS Script : Using DMO to export data from SQLServer to csv file

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Just thought of something.  Why don't you set up views for each table, use the views to convert your datetime data into char data and use the ExportData method on the view instead of the table.Again, a lot of work depending on the amount of tables in your database.Anyone got any better options?

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2004-07-08

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RE: DTS and Access Denied

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Check the following: 1. Make sure the account that the sql server agent is running under has sufficient priveleges to perform the dts task. 2. Make sure any paths to files are through a mapped drive rather than the full unc path. 3. Run dcomcnfg.exe and add the SQL Service account to Default Access Permissions […]

2004-07-07

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RE: Unknown Collation

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Hi Derrick,>>Can you not enforce that everyone use the same collation?No that is our problem we cant guarantee what the collation sequence will be or how the boxes are setup etc - it is a commercial app/db not an internal one.Rich

2004-06-28

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RE: logging updates

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The easiest thing to do would be to add an update_script column to the table.  You can then just put the script that updated it in there.  Triggers won't capture this level of detail.

2004-06-28

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