Problem solved....
We'll call that an undocumented feature of the app's export/import process. I suspect they expanded the field in the export file, but forgot to change the size in the schema creation script.
Thank you George.
Out of curiosity, is there a switch for the BCP command that...
I have an export from a 3rd party application in a tab delimited format. The exported file is flat text, tab delimited, and was designed to be fairly generic for importing into a DB (SQL, DB2, Oracle, etc). One field in the export is text. According to the app's documentation, the destination...
I could be wrong, but I thought that the BCP was executed using the login rights of whoever is logged on to the SQL Server. So you may have writes to the G: path, but if the same network path isn't mapped to G: on the server, it won't work.
Monkeylizard
Sometimes just a few hours of trial and...
Nevermind. The code shown in the last block works fine. It was a second variable that I dind't tell you guys about that I was stringing in that was NULL and that was clearing the whole @TEXT variable.
Oops.
Monkeylizard
Sometimes just a few hours of trial and error debugging can save minutes...
I need to add some additional text to a text field. We'll call the field NOTES.
Assume that NOTES on a record contains a value of 'This is the first note, added on 04/18/10 4:26:08 PM.' I need to make the field have a new value of:
'This is the first note, added on 04/18/10 4:26:08 PM. This...
I was wrong about the <<>> being find/replace. They are indeed "fields" in the word document. It looks like an IF on the fields may do the trick.
Thanks, everyone.
Monkeylizard
Sometimes just a few hours of trial and error debugging can save minutes of reading manuals.
Thanks everyone. That gives me something to go on. At least now I know it's probably possible to do what the business owners want, it's just beyond our current internal skill-set. A consultant may be in order.
Monkeylizard
Sometimes just a few hours of trial and error debugging can save minutes...
Tag" may not be the right word for this. Basically the 3rd party app has a list of predefined words that I have to encase with the "<<" and the ">>". when it finds one of it's predefined words in that encapsulation, it replaces the whole "tag" with the value of the database field that it...
I have a document template that uses find/replace tags. A 3rd party application opens the template and saves a new instance of a document after doing a find/replace on the tags.
For example, the address section of the letter may look like:
<<CUSTOMERTITLE>> <<CUSTOMERNAME>>...
Crowley16, I must be mistaken on app roles. I thought the connecting app had to tell SQL which app role to activate for the connection. Is that incorrect?
Thanks for the Program_Name() and suser_name() values. That's helpful. Is there also a way to collect the actual SQL statement being...
I had used Gavona's second idea, putting the overs in C and the unders in D. That actually works just fine.
SkipVought's SUMPRODUCT formulas give me the same result and much more concisely without the need for columns C and D.
Thank you everyone for your help.
Monkeylizard
Sometimes just...
erm...I noticed the obvious mathematical error.I know 10-8 is not 8. oops. But the questions still remain. Thanks.
Monkeylizard
Sometimes just a few hours of trial and error debugging can save minutes of reading manuals.
I need to total the differences between two columns into Over/Under totals. I need to know how far over Column A is than B, when value in column A is > B, and vice versa. I'm not talking about the net difference, but more of an IF logic.
Example:
ColumnA ColumnB
10 5
10 8...
Thanks Crowley16. But I don't have access to the apps' source code, so I wouldn't be able to edit them to execute the sp_setapprole stored proc.
I've checked with our internal auditors. They would be satisfied if I can log all activity (besides Select, if I can exclude that) performed by anyone...
Triggers are an option for the logging on key tables if that's the route I need to take. Too many tables to trigger all of them.
Can a trigger be set to only fire if the command comes from a connection made by an app not in an authorized list? I wouldn't want to log every transaction, say on a...
SQL 2000, possibly moving to 2005 Mode 80
I have a set of purchased apps that use SQL security rather than Active Directory. Each user needs their own SQL account with full read/write/exec rights as the apps use combinations of stored procs and direct updating. Within the apps, users have...
...well on SQL, but I found the simplest way to do it was to skip the ArcServ SQL Agent and just have SQL Server Agent make a backup of the DBs and then have ArcServ pick up the *.BAK files.
Monkeylizard
Sometimes just a few hours of trial and error debugging can save minutes of reading manuals.
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