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Windza
Yak Posting Veteran
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 Posted - 2008-11-03 : 22:35:31
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| Can anyone enlighten me as to how I can specify a prefix for a column in MS SQL? We want to distinguish between system generated and manual purchase orders so I want to set a prefix in the DB column such that PO's are generated something like MX0001 rather than 000001.Is there a property or setting that will allow this? |
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PeterNeo
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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Posted - 2008-11-03 : 23:09:29
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No, there is no such thing in SQL.You need to specify it while inserting the record."There is only one difference between a dream and an aim. A dream requires soundless sleep to see, whereas an aim requires sleepless efforts to achieve..!!" |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2008-11-03 : 23:16:52
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| you need to write this logic in your insert code based on a bit field to distinguish b/w system and manually generated orders.Use a temporary table with identity column to get the new incremental values and append 'MX' to it. |
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Windza
Yak Posting Veteran
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Posted - 2008-11-03 : 23:21:12
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| Thanks ppl... I don't have ready access to the insert code so I'll have to look at the PO report and just include a static text field before the PO number...Cheers |
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Specify a Prefix for Column