[dba-SQLServer]Connection String

Francisco H Tapia my.lists at verizon.net
Thu Apr 3 18:22:52 CST 2003


It's doing what you ask it which is take an integer datatype and do some
processing, it never re-set's it datatype unless you do.... so modifying the
datatype to float is a good place to start..

-Francisco
http://rcm.netfirms.com

On Thursday, April 03, 2003 4:14 PM [GMT-8],
David Emerson <davide at dalyn.co.nz> wrote:

: Thanks Francisco.
:
: Another thing I found out today was that if you divide an integer by
: an integer SQL will round the result to an integer.  Using the ROUND()
: function doesn't help if you want decimal places.  My solution was to
: CAST one of the number as a float.  Another of Microsoft's features?
:
: David
:
: At 3/04/2003, you wrote:
:: If you are using windows authentication then you can just use this.
:: otherwise if you are using sql authentication you'll need to parse
:: the string.
::
:: 'Use the following to get UserName
:: Private Declare Function apiGetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias
:: "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long
::
:: Function fOSUserName() As String
:: ' Returns the network login name
:: Dim lngLen As Long, lngx As Long
:: Dim strUserName As String
::     strUserName = String$(254, 0)
::     lngLen = 255
::     lngx = apiGetUserName(strUserName, lngLen)
::     If lngx <> 0 Then
::         fOSUserName = Left$(strUserName, lngLen - 1)
::     Else
::         fOSUserName = ""
::     End If
:: End Function
::
:: -Francisco
:: http://rcm.netfirms.com
::
:: On Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:15 PM [GMT-8],
:: David Emerson <davide at dalyn.co.nz> wrote:
::
::: AXP ADP/SQL2000.
:::
::: I can get the current Connection string by using
::: CurrentProject.Connection.ConnectionString.
:::
::: I want to be able to check the current user (User ID = xxx) and run
::: code based on who it is.  Is there a simple function to find out the
::: User or do I have to do string manipulation on the ConnectionString?
:::
::: Regards
:::
::: David Emerson
::: DALYN Software Ltd
::: 25b Cunliffe St, Johnsonville
::: Wellington, New Zealand
::: Ph/Fax (877) 456-1205
:::
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