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To cut a very long story short I wa
To cut a very long story short I want to use varibles in an Alter command in an SP i.e ALTER TABLE @tableName ALTER COLUMN @fieldName datetime but it gives me a syntax error. Is there any way around it or should I start hand cranking database mods now. Regards Mike- mikehilly
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- Forum: Microsoft SQL Server: Programming
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update SQL with data from another
Write an Insert query using a select query that uses a left join. The Join would find all records in the new table and only those that match in the old table you can then use a where clause on the primary key of the old table which looks for Null values. They will be Null in Old where they do...- mikehilly
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- Forum: Microsoft SQL Server: Programming
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SQL Trigger oddness
Why do my triggers fire on an update that effects one row eg [UPDATE Customer SET CustomerName = 'Some Geezer' where CustomerID = 3] but not on an update that effects multiple rows eg [UPDATE Customer SET CustomerName = "No Name" where CustomerName is null] ?? If I run the same...- mikehilly
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- Forum: Microsoft SQL Server: Programming
