I am using SQL Server 2005 (developer)
I created a blank database and restored a 2005 database srome the management
studio
After mussingaround for a bit I decided to role back and do the restore

I'm using SQL Server 2005 sp3
I receive an Excel spreadsheet from Cognos software.
I can open it fine in Excel 2003 SP3;however, when I attempt to import it
using the import wizard, I get an error which says "External table is not in

I have a set of measurements and i'd like to
present them as a "histogram". After a few
hours of trying and googling, i've given up.
How does one do it?

I have a table with names of places visited. Most of
the places are visited several times. Some of the
places available for visit are not visited at all. I can't
tell how many different places are visited.

Looking to find an install program for the ODBC driver for ms sql 2008.
Somehow I am going in circles in ms web site. I need to run a test in
Windows XP.
I appreciate the right link for that.

As the subject says, I am running VS2008Exp (the ASP.net component
particularly) and am unable to connect to the SQL Server 2008 Express that
is runing directly on the same machine.  This is a fresh clean install of
the whole entire machine,..the OS, SQL2008Express, and ...

I have only recently started using MS SQL server having made some fairly
complicated databases in MS Access but nothing with nearly as much data as i
am dealing with at the moment.  I have been learning about indexing schemes
as I need to speed up access as much as possible.  The ...

Dear Professional,
Just want to ask one question.
Three months a ago one of my database size was 5 GB and now it's 12 GB but I
didn't see much data from last three months, is there anyway I can findout,

I am a novice just learning by self teaching. i created a table, but could
not input data into the table. I am so frustrated. Can anyone help me with
what could be the problems? I need an online or phone tutor to help get into
the swing of events. Thank you all.

I have a table with accumulated values and a date.
It looks like this:
SELECT Occasion, Distance FROM Records;
Occasion                Distance

We have MS SQL Server 2000 running on a cluster.  The SQL Agent shows
as running but no jobs are being ran as scheduled as of this past
weekend.
Stopping and restarting the agent via Service Manager did not fix the

I have a table with non-unique things in one coilumn, and a version
number for those things in another column. I am trying to SELECT the
latest version of those things. For Example:
vchThing  iVersion

The way i've set up my connection, i use data adapter
to fill(...) the data set. Then, i use a parser, written by
me, to create an xml of that data. Finally, i send it back.
I wonder if there's some neat way to send XML right

i have a strange situation. records in one of tables in my database
have inexplicably deleted. only a few person know the access key to do
the deletion and they don't do that.
in addition to that, the table's primary key definition has also

I normally work with MS-SQL (inc clustering, mirroring and replicated
systems) but I've been tasked with looking at MySQL Cluster so that we
can implement a very fast real time online search system. I can't give
too many specifics, but it's for a very large web based solution. It's