Gaby Abed


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Generate views to correct the column collation on a target DB's tables automatically

You find you are querying a vendor supported database where you're not allowed to make any collation changes, and which has a weird collation setup: default DB collation that matches your server and other databases all character related columns are explicitly a different collation that does not match your DB or server collation Rather than […]

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2019-07-05 (first published: )

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Adding a Lot of Seconds

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DECLARE @BaseDate DATETIME = '1900-01-01';

SELECT DATEADD(SECOND, 2147483648, @BaseDate) AS [MaxIntSecondsAdded];

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