ANSI Questions

I have a 6.5 and 2000 db that allows over flow of data to be entered into the
fields, but I have another 2000 db that does not allow over flow of data to
be entered. How can I check the ansi_defaults in the db's? I went through
the book ol but it didn't explain how to see those values. Only how to set
it using the SET option. Which was SET ANSI_DEFAULTS off go. Does it set it for the whole db or just my session? I need to
change it for all logins to be consistant. ThanksLOOK UP @.@.Options in BOL - Here's a script that makes use of it.

begin

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-- Declarations
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declare
@.Err Int,
@.RetVal Int,
@.ProcName sysname

declare @.Definitions table (
BitMask int,
OptionName nvarchar(25),
Description nvarchar(500)
)

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-- Initialization
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Set @.Err = 0 /* 0 ==> OK */
Set @.ProcName = 'DisplaySetOptions Script'

insert into @.Definitions (
BitMask, OptionName, Description
)
select 1, 'DISABLE_DEF_CNST_CHK', 'Controls interim or deferred constraint checking.'
union all select 2, 'IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS', 'Controls whether a transaction is started implicitly when a statement is executed.'
union all select 4, 'CURSOR_CLOSE_ON_COMMIT', 'Controls behavior of cursors after a commit operation has been performed.'
union all select 8, 'ANSI_WARNINGS', 'Controls truncation and NULL in aggregate warnings.'
union all select 16, 'ANSI_PADDING', 'Controls padding of fixed-length variables.'
union all select 32, 'ANSI_NULLS', 'Controls NULL handling when using equality operators.'
union all select 64, 'ARITHABORT', 'Terminates a query when an overflow or divide-by-zero error occurs during query execution.'
union all select 128, 'ARITHIGNORE', 'Returns NULL when an overflow or divide-by-zero error occurs during a query.'
union all select 256, 'QUOTED_IDENTIFIER', 'Differentiates between single and double quotation marks when evaluating an expression.'
union all select 512, 'NOCOUNT', 'Turns off the message returned at the end of each statement that states how many rows were affected.'
union all select 1024, 'ANSI_NULL_DFLT_ON', 'Alters the session''s behavior to use ANSI compatibility for nullability. New columns defined without explicit nullability are defined to allow nulls.'
union all select 2048, 'ANSI_NULL_DFLT_OFF', 'Alters the session''s behavior not to use ANSI compatibility for nullability. New columns defined without explicit nullability are defined not to allow nulls.'
union all select 4096, 'CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL', 'Returns NULL when concatenating a NULL value with a string.'
union all select 8192, 'NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT', 'Generates an error when a loss of precision occurs in an expression.'
union all select 16384, 'XACT_ABORT', 'Rolls back a transaction if a Transact- SQL statement raises a run-time error.'

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-- Body of Procedure
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select OptionName,
case when BitMask & @.@.Options = BitMask then 'ON' else '--' end Value,
Description
from @.Definitions
order by OptionName

if @.@.error <> 0
begin
set @.Err = -1 /* -1 ==> Error: ... */
goto CommonExit
end

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-- Clean-Up and Exit
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CommonExit:
print '@.Err = ' + cast(@.Err as varchar(10))

end
go