SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes
During a large ETL process from a staging table , UPDATE was creating an error on a CONVERT.
Msg 245, Sev 16,...
2012-01-30
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During a large ETL process from a staging table , UPDATE was creating an error on a CONVERT.
Msg 245, Sev 16,...
2012-01-30
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Generate SQL Server INSERT statements with Excel Concatenate.
A developer requested access to a Production database. The details were to COPY...
2012-01-27
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If some long running error situation , the Error Log can become very big. In those situations , it can be time-consuming...
2012-01-26
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The BACKUP LOG WITH NO_LOG and WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY options are discontinued in SQL Server 2008.
There is no replacement for this...
2012-01-22
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Q. “I need to modify Production Data directly on a Production database. What are some steps I can follow to...
2012-01-21
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For each cleared cachestore in the plan cache SQL Server reports a message in the error logs , such as :
SQL...
2012-01-20
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SQL Server, Powershell and Excel are a good mix . But saving to Powershell output to HTML is versatile – if requiring...
2012-01-19
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Different queries are optimized for different objectives
Response Times and Throughput are two standard objectives.
Response Time is about retrieving the hits...
2012-01-18
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Hungarian notation refers to a identifier naming convention. The variable indicates the variables use – as opposed to what they are....
2012-01-17
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1) How can I execute a SQL Server Agent Job every few seconds? Administrators try to use SQL Server Agent as...
2012-01-16
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Data isn't just about numbers and spreadsheets. It holds stories, patterns, and the answers...
By Brian Kelley
When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...
On Wednesday May 15th 2024 I will give a free webinar on MSSQLTips.com about...
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I have table TicketNumbers i TicketNumber UID 2 10 09901a22c7c3acc6786847c775f1d113 6 5 00dad28bef21f916240d6e8c1c1bd67d 12 ...
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers