Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/02/07 22:33

Dan (dan_barber2003@hotmail.com) writes:
> select
> @profileid = min([id]),
> @ptr1 = MIN(textptr(text1))
> from #holding
> where [id] > @profileid

This does not look good. Is there are any reason to assume that text
pointers are aligned with id?

Either do

SELECT @profileid = MIN(id)
FROM #holding
WHERE id > @profileid

SELECT @ptr1 = textptr(text1) FROM #holding WHERE id = @profileid

Or run a second cursor over #holding.

And, yeah, this is ugly, painful and no fun at all. But it's the only
alternative.

In SQL 2005 there are new data types that replaces text & co, and
which does not have all the restrictions of text. Or the need to
use UPDATETEXT...


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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