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How to recover a SQL Server login password.

Geoff Albin from SQLServerCentral.com

I will describe a simple method anyone can use to obtain lost password information for a SQL Server login. More »

SQL Saturday #187 - Richmond

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A free day of training in Richmond, VA. Come along and see Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey and more. More »

How to move a SQL Server Log Shipped Secondary Database to Different SQL Server

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This tip I will explains a step-by-step method to perform the SQL Server Log Shipping migration. More »

How to move a SQL Server Log Shipped Secondary Database to Different SQL Server

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From the SQLServerCentral Blogs - A Month of PowerShell – Day 22 (Restores)

Wayne Sheffield from SQLServerCentral.com

Welcome to Day 22 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on... More »

I had a brief conversation on Twitter about the Microsoft Connect bug reporting system, and received the tweet pictured above. It notes: "I like how you used 'Connect works' in that sentence. Great work of fiction." That made me laugh because it does sometimes seem that Connect doesn't work all that well for those of us that use it.

Connect was supposed to be a place where users could report bugs and make suggestions. Some people file a lot of bugs and suggestions, though more than a few seem slightly silly. Others file what appear to be support requests, and I've had a number of documentation notes. There are even Connect items filed on Connect itself, though I can't understand why this particular one is "postponed". There are some items that have been open for years, even with hundreds of votes.

The Connect system is supposed to feed directly to product groups and there are more than a few times I've received feedback through the system from developers I know personally that provide comments. I know developers are seeing the items, but there appear to be a few times of year when the SQL Server group mass closes lots of Connect items, often without any feedback. The twitter conversation I had above included one of these items.

I remember being excited when Connect was introduced, thinking this would be a good way to get feedback to the product groups, and hopefully influence the managers to prioritize some of the common requests. However that excitement was tempered with the idea that so many items would be submitted, and it would be hard to triage and rank them. Indeed, I rarely find something in the searches I make before submitting, even I'll have submissions closed as duplicate.  The number of items submitted is so high, it's hard to even comprehend how any group works with the submissions. 

With the state of Connect, the lack of feedback, and the mass closures, I'm not sure how well Connect is working these days. However it's not all bad; I did submit one item that received enough votes to actually make a change in MS policy. Outside of that, I think @SirSQL's statement might be closer to the truth than I would hope.

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I execute the following T-SQL

SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF

CREATE TABLE #T(Id INT,S VARCHAR(5))

DECLARE @I INT, @S VARCHAR(8)

SET @I = 987.65

SET @S = 'abcdefghij' 

INSERT INTO #T(Id,S)
 VALUES(@I,@S)

SELECT Id,S FROM #T

The question is: what values are returned by SELECT STATEMENT. SELECT TWO (2)

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Teach yourself the programming fundamentals of SQL Server 2012—one step at a time. Ideal for beginning SQL Server database administrators and developers, this tutorial provides clear guidance and practical, learn-by-doing exercises for building database solutions that solve real-world business problems.

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Will this code execute and return a value?

-- First Step
-- First Create a Table 
create table temp1
( name nvarchar(50)
)
GO
-- Second Step
--First Stored Procedure
create proc sp1
as
begin

select * from temp1
exec sp2

end
GO
-- Third Step
-- Second Stored procedure
create proc sp2
as
begin

select * from temp1
exec sp1

end
GO
--Fourth step
exec sp1
GO

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Answer: No, this will create an infinite loop

Explanation: When user execute any one SP then it cal to second sp again second sp call to first sp, so that it will continue in an infinite loop. While you can compile both procedures, you cannot execute them successfully.

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Copy Triggers from One DB to Another

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SQL Server 2005 : Administering

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SQL Server 2005 : Backups

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SQL Server 2005 : SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

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SQL Server 2008 : SQL Server 2008 - General

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SSRS. Parameters mdx script doesn't work with multi-value - Hi ALL, I need your your help!! I want to create a report with multi-value parameters with SSRS. So, I wrote this mdx...

unexplained deadlock - Hi, I'm using SQL Server 2008. i have 2 different statements that lock each other, can you please explain why they are...

How to insert in batches WITHOUT using @@ROWCOUNT - I have the specific insert query below, and it works fine if I have less than 20 records or so,...

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Query in SSRS - hi All ,i have one requirement where the SSRS report is displaying only certain data of a column based on...

how to get Mac Address in SSRS - Hi, I am having a requirement of taking the MAC Address using SSRS is it is possible to take? My Requirement: To...

fetch tables most often queried - Is there a way to determine which tables of a database are being queried most often, sorted in descending order?

User tables in the system DBs. Are they affected by SPs and CUs - Hello all, I have a client with several instances of SQL Server from 2000, 2005, & 2008, at various builds. They...

Need help with a select, insert - GOAL: insert into tblcompanyassignments from tbluserassignments. Only attempt the insert for userid that exist in both tbluserassignments and tblexistingusers. For...

error in bulk copy - Hi I want to test some changes in the structure of a table and see the plan,I exported the data in...

SQL Server 2008 : T-SQL (SS2K8)

cursor - Hello, Following is my requirement. [quote][code="other"] Table rows: SLN Id StartDate EndDate Duration TimeElapsed 1 1 1/1/2012 10.12 1/1/2012 10.13 0day 00:01:00 0-days 00:01:00 1 1...

FOR XML and trying to avoid nested cursors - Alright, history first. I've got a bit of a mess I've inherited. Groups inheriting groups inheriting... you get the drift....

Deletes taking long time - I have a situation where I created I ran a query that generated about 32,000 individual deletes that I am...

expression in derived column issue - I want to cretaed new column in derived column with default string valuve like Column name Expression TableName FactFDDCellQHourlyPegEricsson1 I have tried...

Select full month number (with 0) - Hi, I use [code="sql"]DATEPART(month, myDate)[/code] or [code="sql"]MONTH(myDate)[/code] the resut is: 2 (if myDate is 2013.02.03). I would like return: 02 Do you have any solution for...

Guidance on table valued types. - We have 1 table valued parameter (tvp) coming to GetXXX stored procedures. It contains only 1 column of type uniqueidentifier....

Hierarchy example - Ken Henderson's book - not working - I’m working on the hierarchy lesson in Ken Henderson’s The Guru’s Guide to Transact-SQL. He wants to show two things....

UDF Help - Hi Guys, I want to create UDF. Below is my logic. Please guide me where i am wrong. Alter Function [dbo].[udf_GPList](@EID int,@PID...

Grouping sets - Hi All, how to use the groupingsets to a query having more than 32 columns plz help out

SQL Server 2008 : SQL Server Newbies

can this update statement be made easier - I am running an update statement as follows UPDATE dbo.BigTable SET BigTable.Software_Version_Raw = ( CASE WHEN dbo.BigTable.Software_Version_Raw LIKE '1.%' THEN '1.x' WHEN dbo.BigTable.Software_Version_Raw LIKE...

Group by and Where clause - Hi, Please see below, Table name : Log_table Columns: Logid int, databasename varchar(30), tablename varchar(30), logdate datetime Query 1: Select max(logdate) from log_table where...

SQL Server 2008 : SQL Server 2008 High Availability

Replication synchronizing errors - What all reason could be there for errors while synchronizing merge replication or transactional replication.

dbmirrroring - can two mirroring sessions on single production server between diferrent sql instances use same endpoint and same port numbers eg: DBprincipal1....DBMirroring1 endpoint...

Confusion regarding which full-backup file to apply on secondary in Log shipping - Hi we have a log shipping configured at one of client side and is out of shrink for log time...

SQL Server 2008 : SQL Server 2008 Administration

SQL Server doesn't accept remote connections. - Hello, I am trying to use my SQL Server in my Perl application. I am hosting my Perl code on an...

Attach Database Error after moving MDF - I needed to move the MDF to another location so I detached the database, and dragged the MDF to a...

Problem with Database mail - We have SQL SERVER 2008 R2,which Database mail does not work properly.When I try to send test mail,it says it...

Database in Recovery mode while restoring it - HI All, I need your to understand and resolve this issue. I have initiated the backup script for a database which...

CPU considerations for multiple instances - I've been researching this and haven't found much info so I'm not sure what most people do. Consider a server...

Can't Kill SPID “Transaction Rollback in Progress” - I'm running into frequent Blocking on a Development Server. I have been correctly the code or making recommendations to prevent this...

Programming : Powershell

Risks/Best practices on execution policy - While it would be easy to set the execution policy to unrestricted, or possibly set it to unrestricted in an...

SQLServerCentral.com : Anything that is NOT about SQL!

Are the posted questions getting worse? - Is it me, or are the posted questions getting worse these days? I just read a post by someone apparently in...

Reporting Services : Reporting Services

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