sql-server-2000

I am using SQL server MSDE 2000. I have a field called notes of type nvarchar(65). The content is 'Something ' with an extra space after the content (quotes for clarity) in all the records. I used the following command. UPDATE TABLE1 SET notes = RTRIM(LTRIM(notes)) But it does not work. Is there any alternate way to do it? Are you sure the query isn't working? Try: SELECT TOP 100 '~'+ t.notes +'~' FROM TABLE1 t TOP 100 will limit the results to the first 100 rows, enough to get an idea if there's really a space in the output. If there is, and RTRIM/LTRIM is not removing it - then you aren't

Possible Duplicate: How to get the record of a table who contains the maximum value? I've got an aggregate query like the following: SELECT TrainingID, Max(CompletedDate) as CompletedDate, Max(Notes) as Notes --This will only return the longest notes entry FROM HR_EmployeeTrainings ET WHERE (ET.AvantiRecID IS NULL OR ET.AvantiRecID = @avantiRecID) GROUP BY AvantiRecID, TrainingID Which is working, and returns correct data most of the time, but I noticed a problem. The Notes field which gets returned will not necessarily match the record that the max(completedDate) is from. Instead it will be

I realize that temporary tables are session/connection bound and not visible or accessible out of the session/connection. I have a long running stored procedure that creates temporary tables at various stages. Is there a way I can see the list of current temporary tables? What privileges do I need to be able to do so? Alternatively, Is there a way I can see the particular SQL statement being executed inside a running stored procedure? The procedure is running as a scheduled job in SQL Server. I am using SQL Server 2000. Thanks for your guidance. Sandro Is this what you are after? select * from

A slightly tricky SQL question (we are running SQL server 2000). I have the following table, StoreCount - WeekEndDate StoreCount 2010-07-25 359 2010-07-18 359 2010-07-11 358 2010-07-04 358 2010-06-27 358 2010-06-20 358 2010-06-13 358 2010-06-06 359 2010-05-30 360 2010-05-23 360 2010-05-16 360 I want to turn this into the following output - StartDate EndDate StoreCount 2010-07-18 2010-07-25 359 2010-06-13 2010-07-11 358 2010-06-06 2010-06-06 359 2010-05-16 2010-05-30 360 As you can see, I'm wanting to group the store counts, by only as they run in sequence together. Patrick Marchand Here's a

How will you find last sunday of a month in sql 2000? SELECT DATEADD(day,DATEDIFF(day,'19000107',DATEADD(month,DATEDIFF(MONTH,0,GETDATE() /*YourValuehere*/),30))/7*7,'19000107') Edit: A correct, final, working answer from my colleague. seanmcgriff.net select dateadd(day,1-datepart(dw, getdate()), getdate()) An alternative approach, borrowed from data warehousing practice. Create a date-dimension table and pre-load it for 10 years, or so. TABLE dimDate (DateKey, FullDate, Day, Month, Year, DayOfWeek, DayInEpoch, MonthName, LastDayInMonthIndicator, many more..) The easiest way to fill-in the

I've got a number of ASP.Net websites (.Net v3.5) running on a server with a SQL 2000 database backend. For several months, I've been receiving seemingly random InvalidOperationExceptions with the message "Internal connection fatal error". Sometimes there's a few days in between, while other times there are multiple errors per day. The exception is not limited to one site in particular, though they share business and data access assemblies. The error seems to always be thrown from SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(). It sometimes is thrown from old-school direct SqlCommand.Execute() calls, while other