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Unpacking Name to Name, Initials
Dear All, Firstly, I should say I'm using ASA, not ASE. Can you help deal with this problem? I have a table called Trainers: Trainer char(5) Tname char(30) The col Tname contains data like: 'A B Smith' 'N Tinkler' I need this data to be reformatted thus: 'Smith A B' 'Tinkler N' This could...- MichaelRussell
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- Forum: Sybase: Adaptive (SQL) Server
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Variants vs. Standard ANSI?
My question: Is there a published study /useful source showing ANSI standard versus Vendor-specific features such that one can design & use a database in a sufficiently ANSI-generic way as to escape most or all of the problems one can envisage from running one 'design-and-code' set against...- MichaelRussell
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- Forum: -General database discussion
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SQL variants
Moving an aplication away from flat files to an RDBMS means establishing the ground rules for dealing with different offerings from Oracle, Sybase, MS. Why? Well, the aplication will be sold on into customer sites where they may have their own copy of one of these RDBMSes. This would seem to...- MichaelRussell
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- Forum: ANSI_SQL
