How to preflight a convert colors command

I can manually convert color spaces per the attached screenshot, but for the life of me I can not figure how to turn this into a batch or preflight in Acrobat 9 or an action or preflight in Acrobat X. Can someone please help me with this and explain how this can be done? I can manage to convert the text and lines but the images are not converting like they do when I run it manually.

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ALTER VIEW dbo.ConsumptionAS SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT ID,
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I am very interested in this part:
SUM(CASE WHEN YEAR_MONTH = '200710' AND NbrDaysUsed != 0 THEN (QtyUsed/ Days_Usage) * 748.05 ELSE 0 END)) AS Oct2007
thanks
Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 8:25 AM
Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 8:26 AM
Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 8:27 AM

Thank you!!
Now let me aslk the second part of my question.
This sql command:
ALTER VIEW dbo.ConsumptionAS SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT ID,
CONVERT(decimal(10, 2), SUM(CASE WHEN YEAR_MONTH = '200710' AND NbrDaysUsed != 0 THEN (QtyUsed/ Days_Usage) * 748.05 ELSE 0 END)) AS Oct2007,
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FROM dbo.MasterConsumption WHERE YEAR_MONTH >= '200710' AND YEAR_MONTH <= '200809' GROUP BY ID ORDER BY ID
was created with this query in SQL Server and then I saved it in a store procedure, that I scheduled to run montlhy
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… (GOES FROM current month -12 to current month -1)
, CONVERT(decimal(10, 2), SUM(CASE WHEN YEAR_MONTH = ' +
"'" + dbo.CONLastMonth_fn(getdate(), month(getdate()) - 1) +"'" +
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"'" + dbo.CONLastMonth_fn (getdate(), month(getdate())-1 ) +"'" +
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Is that something that can be done in Oracle in the same way?
Do you use another approach?
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Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 10:19 AM
Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 10:21 AM
Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 10:21 AM
Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 10:22 AM
Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 10:23 AM
Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 10:23 AM
Edited by: user631364 on Oct 27, 2008 10:24 AM

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