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| SQL Server 2016 - Administration |
| DIff Backup on secondary replica in AG - Why differential backup is not supported on secondary replica in AG? |
| How to Insert EventViewer records to SQL Server Table - Hello, I developed the below code to scan through cluster error issues happening in the last 48 hrs. But if I need to insert the reocrds to a table, how to achieve the need? Get-EventLog -LogName "system" -after (((get-date).AddDays(-2)).date) | where {$_.InstanceId -eq 1069 -or $_.InstanceId -eq 1045 -or $_.InstanceId -eq 1205 -or $_.InstanceId -eq […] |
| Administration - SQL Server 2014 |
| ould not open file I:\DataFiles\Alerts.mdf for file number 1. OS error: 3 - Date,Source,Severity,Message 02/07/2020 08:57:48,spid20s,Unknown,File activation failure. The physical file name "L:\LogFiles\Alerts_log.ldf" may be incorrect. 02/07/2020 08:57:48,spid20s,Unknown,FileMgr::StartLogFiles: Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file 'L:\LogFiles\Alerts_log.ldf'. Diagnose and correct the operating system error and retry the operation. 02/07/2020 08:57:48,spid20s,Unknown,Unable to open the physical file "I:\DataFiles\Alerts.mdf". Operating system error 3: […] |
| Development - SQL Server 2014 |
| Group by the messages based on the Column and retrieve the records - Hello All, First of all, I would like to thank you for going through my topic. So the question is I need to compose the message and send it to the recipients based on the Notification Type (Phone, and Email). For that, I have written the below query which basically composes the part of the […] |
| SQL 2012 - General |
| Figure out Source of SPID retrospectively - Hi All I am looking for a way to find the source of a SPID that ran a query last night. I have inherited an SQL environment and there are DBCC queries being ran at 10pm each night. They are not being ran as SQL Agent Jobs or scheduled SP's so I assume they are […] |
| i get error All queries combined using a UNION, INTERSECT or EXCEPT operator mus - problem I get error All queries combined using a UNION, INTERSECT or EXCEPT operator must have an equal number of expressions in their target lists I need to display data plus one record display as first row as structure of data the following data is desired result bold row i need to added ItemId IPN […] |
| SQL Server 2012 - T-SQL |
| What EXACTLY are brain dumps, are "historical questions" illegal and so the VCE - Hello. This is probalby sensitive question, so i will try to explain it as clear and precise as possible. I've read the exam policies and FAQ of MS Server 70-461 exam, spefically the "exam security and integrity process". I am new at this subject, so please help me out. For what i understand, brian dumps […] |
| SQL Server 2019 - Administration |
| MS SQL access from Mac - I am trying to access a local MS SQL server (running in a Docker container) on my Mac. I have no trouble if I use sqlcmd but I cannot get Python to work. Here is the beginning of a script: from sqlalchemy import * engine = create_engine('mssql+pyodbc://userid:password@localhost') con = engine.connect() This results in: pyodbc.InterfaceError: ('IM002', […] |
| SQL Server 2019 - Development |
| Selecting the results of a Common Table Expression after using INSERT INTO - Here I have a common table expression followed by INSERT INTO. After that, I want to SELECT the results so I can see the newly inserted data, however I get an error. I presume this is because after the first occurrence of SELECT, INSERT INTO, UPDATE or DELETE the CTE can no longer be referenced. […] |
| T-SQL (SS2K8) |
| Identifying Empty columns - Hi is there a way to identify empty columns. I'm going through a new database right now and dropping columns that have never been used. I've been generating SQL statements to get the max length value of each column and identifying columns that return NULL If there is an easier way to do this I'd […] |
| Reporting Services |
| SSRS 2016 Report Server DBs in a Basic Availability - I have a 2 node cluster on which I need to setup AlwaysOn as standalone SQL instance...since it is a standard edition we would be going with Basic AGs. I can easily get the user databases added into the AGs but I am not sure about how it would be if we add the ReportingServer […] |
| Cached Report Readiness - Hi, I have a report that is pretty complex and performance is not as good as I'd like it to be. Luckily, report is running of data snapshot, so when snapshot is ready, I'm caching report and set it to Always run this report against pregenerated snapshots. creating a snapshot takes 10 to 15 minutes. […] |
| SSRS 2012 |
| SSRS Table Display - Wanting to do some complex (at least to me) manipulation of data that looks like this: And massage it into an SSRS table that looks like this: I've made the following attempt: And it is doing something close to what I want, but not quite: In cases where there are more than one fees per […] |
| Powershell |
| Calling a SQL Server Agent job - Hi, I was looking for a way or possibility to call a SQL Server agent job using a powershell script. And wanted this powershell script to be in a windows task scheduler job. I am pretty new to PowerShell, and so far I was able to get a script as below: (but does not call […] |
| Integration Services |
| Zappysys SSIS Send HTML Email Task (FREE) - Does anyone know if the Zappysys SSIS Send HTML Email Task is free to use in VS and SQL Agent forever or just for 30 days without a purchase? The website suggests it is free but they they talk about a 30 trial for some components. SSIS Send HTML Email Task |
