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RE: To Many SPIDS Open

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The SPIDS are on the database serverWe have an app server which calls a stored procedure on the database server which uses the UDF.After restarting the server all the SPIDS using the UDF go away, but over time build up again.Is there some code we need to add to the UDF to close the connection […]

2004-06-07

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RE: hide active servers

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The SQL Server listener service does two key things.1) When a client asks for a list of SQL Servers on a given subnet, it broadcasts udp/1434 to that subnet. Any SQL Servers on the subnet which haven't been configured to hide themselves will respond back. 2) When you attempt to connect to a named instance, […]

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2004-05-11

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String Manipulation

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Hello,  I've got a stored procedure written that will send a query to a Finger server and return information about a person.  Currently, I get the person's name like this:Smith Joe R.  I would like to reformat this within the sp to read:Joe R. Smith or even break the name down into three separate fields.  […]

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2004-04-15

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RE: Duplicate Records Being Inserted

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Others gave you the reason why this occurs, but the way to avoid this situation would be to key off another field within the table and check against sometype of timestamp datetime field and a customer id type to see if a particular customer has within a relativly short timespan (e.g. within a few seconds […]

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2004-04-13

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RE: ports used by EM

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It is NOT EM who does that it just happens indirectly.Those ports are used by NBT or netbios over tcp/ip it is all because of the NAME resolution mechanism. To minimize that you may try to create either an alias of your server name with the client network utility pointing to the right ip address or […]

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2004-03-19

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RE: convert

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This also is likely to happen when you have complex calculations to do. I have seen mainframe listing using log() and ln() stuff just to work around this impreciseness. Fortunately we now have decimal. How lucky we are

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2004-02-27

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