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RE: bit vs tinyint vs char(1)

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Joe, your point is quite applicable when handling more complex functionality like vectors.But, sometimes there is only one question with one yes/no answer. The only way I know to explicitely enforce this in SQL is to use a non-nullable bit datatype.  As you say, though, it's not portable.  But, honestly, I'd have to re-learn SQL to make […]

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2004-10-07

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RE: DTS Help - How to Check and Stop the Job

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I forgot to mention that I really can not use a temp table to store a second copy of TABLE1.  There are several DTS jobs that are doing something similar.  Each of these DB2 tables contains millions of records that can be up to 30GB.  I can not afford to have these DTS jobs creating and […]

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2004-06-11

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RE: SQl NOLOCK usage

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If you want speed, you should use nolock.  If you absolutely must have the most up to date data, don't use nolock.  The difference being that a Select without nolock will wait for any uncommmited transactions to clear before selecting the data.  With nolock it will give you whatever is commited to the database.cl

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2004-03-19

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RE: Passing a querystring to a stored procedure?

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- keep sql-injection in mind ! Check http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/chedgate/sqlinjection.asp- just define your variables as sp-parameters and handle your statement in your sp. You will soon discover it's best to work with known predicates.- check http://www.sommarskog.se/dynamic_sql.html and http://www.sommarskog.se/dyn-search.html

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2004-03-03

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