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Question About Inserting A String as A Date

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When I run this query below I get the error message below.  The problem seems to have something to do with the fact that I entered a String as the date.  Both fields are "datetime" and I'm using MSSQL7.0.  Is there any way to insert a string as a date or am I going to need […]

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2004-05-09

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Master server as Target server?

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Hi there,I'm using a master server to manage similar jobs on several SQL Servers, and this works fine. There is a nagging peculiarity which I find strange: these jobs for the targetserver should run on the masterserver as well. It seems I cannot designate the master as a target. Is this correct, or do I […]

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2004-04-15

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RE: OLE DB provider EDAOLEDB.1

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Sorry, I gueas I shouldn't hit enter. -- anyway the query is something like select column1,column2 from openquery(EDACONN,'select column1,column2 from table') We can run it, it returns 78000 records. We can run it about 3 - 4 times then we'll get an error ... OLE DB provider 'EDAOLEDB.1' reported an error. The provider ran out […]

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2004-02-04

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RE: Query date and time data

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> select * from test where chkdate between '20040106' and dateadd(s, -1, '20040107')This might work with smalldatetime values, but it will possibly exclude some datetime values for that date.  See my predicates using >= and <  rather than BETWEEN.> select * from test where dbo.Dateonly(chkdate) = '2004-01-06'Three problems with this:By using a conversion style that uses only two digits […]

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2004-01-28

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RE: Can I Recover to a previous point in time?

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You can restore to an earlier point in time. Let's say you want to restore to 1 January. Restore a full backup from that day or a previous day (use WITH NORECOVERY). Then restore any transaction log backups that may have data up to 1 January (use WITH NORECOVERY on all but the last one). […]

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2004-01-23

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RE: altering the text of a sproc thru QA

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Cheers Gary, Hmm..I haven't implemented a source control application yet.Something I have to look at.Do most people use Visual Source safe, or perhaps implement their own thru drawing up their own procedures?Maybe I should start up another thread for this dicussion?ta, yogi

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2004-01-11

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