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RE: alternative to nolock to avoid blocking trans

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Most of it is generated in stored procedures. I want to honor other locks that are on the data. But, while those locks from other procs are in place, I want to be able to read the data and be sure not to issue locks...except perhaps on schema. I don't want to issue any new […]

2003-06-06

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RE: Paging in ASP

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Well I started out with a create table and insert and moved to a select into. The issue I have with either solution is that I need my data ordered as well as numbered. I used an order by in both scenarios. However in SQL 2000, my understanding is that the order by statement isn't […]

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2003-06-06

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RE: Removing Duplicates

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Firstly you need a unique row identifier for each row add an identity field SELECT * From yourTable WHERE Operating_System = '2000' AND Processor_Speed >=500 AND Location <> 'NOT-KNOWN' Use the sql above to get the rows to satisfy the first aprt of your 'IF' pseudocode and join this back onto the table (self join) […]

2003-06-06

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RE: DBCC UPDATEUSAGE and EM question

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FOr the most part it is only the count you will run into that gives this problem in EM and needs to be updated. But 1) Developers make many more mistakes besides trusting count in EM, make sure they become aware of these things as soon as possible and that they verify the data themselves. […]

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2003-06-06

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RE: DBAs versus SQL Server

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Crappy, keep on writing reports, explaining the problems, estimates, if not getting your heads of the sand scenario I have warned you, disk full, lost data, cost to resolve. How to resolve and costs. Tell users to speak to the manager. Maybe send report to boss's boss.

2003-06-04

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RE: Transact-SQL Debugger

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I have similar behavior when I run the debugger from a remote machine. When I logon directly to the machine using terminal services or dameware and then open query analyzer the debugger works. If you remotely login try a direct login and see if that does the trick. -Mark

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2003-05-28

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RE: SQL Reports in PDF format

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There are some 3rd party products that let you create pdf's, I think mostly they show up as a printer driver. Try componentsource.com. Doing from Access probably easier than directly from a proc. Andy http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/

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2003-05-23

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