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Yes. SYSTEM_USER will tell you the current context, but ORIGINAL_LOGIN() should be able to tell you the base user account. ![ORIGINAL_LOGIN() shows that I'm still the one running this query, even...
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There are a couple of problems with your query. First of all, you are doing a cross join between tblMember and tblIssueReturn. Say you have 100 "issue return" records (whatever those are...) and 50 of...
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In the SQL Server Configuration Manager, check to make sure that your server has TCP/IP turned on as a valid protocol. Also, in Windows services (Control Panel --> Administrative Tools -->...
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Here's a slightly modified example with some data attached: declare @t1 table ( AcctId int, SiteId int, Country char(2), ItemId int, UsageDate date ); insert into @t1 values (123, 321, 'US', 69,...
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SQL Server 2005 introduced FOR XML, including FOR XML PATH. One nice side benefit is that there was a quirk in the way they did it which you could take advantage of to create a delimited list pretty...
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Other than @ThomasRushton's answer of joining on a subset, there are a few other cases that I can think of. The first is a cross join. If you need a Cartesian product, that's where you go. In this...
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You can use the IIF command on your textbox. Right-click the textbox and select Expression, and then type in: =iif(Fields!Field1.Value="0", "N/A", Fields!Field2.Value / Fields!Field1.Value) That way,...
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There are a few ways to do this. Here's one way to do it: create table #temp ( Id char(1), Amount int ); insert into #temp values ('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4), ('e', 26); with totals as (...
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If somebody on your network is [running intrusion detection software][1], that may be the cause. Previously, I've seen the "Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain..." error pop up after a...
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When you're spiking like that, I would suggest running [Adam Machanic's sp_whoIsActive][1] as a start to see if anything else is running that is taking up those resources. But if it is just the one...
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A normal view is just a saved query, nothing more. The data isn't saved on the disk--it isn't materialized. Thus, you cannot have integrity constraints (check constraints, foreign keys, or primary...
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In general, I support going with actual dates rather than ages, but this is one of the exceptions. In our data processing, we go by age rather than date. Federal TEDS (Treatment Episode Data Set)...
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In the Global.asax, there is an Application_Error event which gets triggered whenever an unhandled exception bubbles up to the top without being caught by any other functions (so, on a website, that'd...
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I'd look into using a [full-text index][1] for this query. If you have the server power to keep that index up-to-date, performance would be much faster than the %something% search for the reason...
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Using SSIS, this isn't too difficult, but it is perhaps most easily solved using a Script transform. There are [a few][1] [how-tos][2] online which should give you a pretty good idea of how to solve...
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