sql-server-2000

Our system runs on SQL Server 2000, and we are in the process of preparing for an upgrade to SQL Server 2008. We have a lot of trigger code where we need to detect a change in a given column and then operate on that column if it has changed. Obviously SQL Server provides the UPDATE() and COLUMNS_UPDATED() functions, but these functions only tell you which columns have been implicated in the SQL statement, not which columns have actually changed. To determine which columns have changed, you need code similar to the following (for a column that supports NULLs): IF UPDATE(Col1) SELECT @col1

It seems that some scripts generated by Enterprise Manager* (or not, it doesn't matter) created check constraints WITH NOCHECK . Now when anyone modifies the table, SQL Server is stumbling across failed check constraints , and throwing errors. Can i make SQL go through all its check constraints, and check them? Running: sp_msforeachtable 'ALTER TABLE ? CHECK CONSTRAINT all' only enables previously disabled check constraints, it doesn't actually check them. Footnotes * SQL Server 2000 Nathan DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS WITH ALL_CONSTRAINTS won't actually make your constraints trusted. It will report

Is it possible to define a sort order for the returned results? I would like the sort order to be 'orange' 'apple' 'strawberry' not ascending or descending. I know ORDER BY can do ASC or DESC but is there a DEFINED('orange', 'apple', 'strawberry') type thing? This will be running on SQL Server 2000. It's incredibly clunky, but you can use a CASE statement for ordering: SELECT * FROM Blah ORDER BY CASE MyColumn WHEN 'orange' THEN 1 WHEN 'apple' THEN 2 WHEN 'strawberry' THEN 3 END Alternately, you can create a secondary table which contains the sort field and a sort order. TargetValue SortOrder

I have a SQL Server 2000 with a table containing an image column. How do I insert the binary data of a file into that column by specifying the path of the file? CREATE TABLE Files ( FileId int, FileData image ) casperOne If you mean using a literal, you simply have to create a binary string: insert into Files (FileId, FileData) values (1, 0x010203040506) And you will have a record with a six byte value for the FileData field. You indicate in the comments that you want to just specify the file name, which you can't do with SQL Server 2000 (or any other version that I am aware of). You would

I am working with T-SQL in SQL Server 2000 and I have a table TRANSACTIONS which has a date column TRANDATE defined as DateTime, among many other columns which are irrelevant for this question.. The table is populated with transactions spanning many years. I ran into code, test, that has me confused. There is a simple SELECT , like this: SELECT TRANDATE, RECEIPTNUMBER FROM TRANSACTIONS WHERE TRANDATE BETWEEN '12/01/2010' and '12/31/2010' ORDER BY TRANDATE and its not returning two rows of data that I know are in that table. With the statement above, the last row its returning, in order, has a

Any suggestions how to join tables from different servers in stored procedure? Without more details, it's hard to give direct examples, but here is the basic idea: First, outside of the stored procedure, the host server (the server the stored procedure will be on) has to know about the second server, including (possibly) login information. On your main server, run the sp_addlinkedserver stored procedure. This only has to be done once: exec sp_addlinkedserver @server=’(your second server)‘; If you need to provide login information to this second server (for example, the process can't log in

I have a query that allows me to get records from a database table by giving it a minimum and maximum limit. It goes like this: SELECT T1.CDUSUARIO, T1.DSALIAS, T1.DSNOMBRE_EMPRESA, T1.DSCARGO, T1.DSDIRECCION_CORREO, T1.CDUSUARIO_ADMINISTRADOR, T1.FEMODIFICACION FROM (SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY CDUSUARIO) as row FROM TBL_USUARIOS ) as T1 WHERE row > @limiteInf and row <= @limiteSup ORDER BY DSALIAS ASC; Now, it works like heaven on SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 but tried to run it on an SQL Server 2000 database and says: ROW_NUMBER it's an unknown function name or something

The requirement is to execute SSIS package, when a file is arrived at a folder,i do not want to start the package manually . It is not sure about the file arrival timing ,also the files can arrive multiple times .When ever the files arrived this has to load into a table.I think, some solution like file watcher task ,still expect to start the package Peter_R The way I have done this in the past is with an infinite loop package called from SQL Server Agent, for example; This is my infinite loop package: Set 3 Variables: IsFileExists - Boolean - 0 FolderLocation - String - C:\Where the file is to