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Steve had to deal with a customer that changed data types in columns often. Is that something you experience?
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This is another part in my series designed to offer guidance around common issues in SQL Server. Today, let’s talk about the all-too-common error: invalid length.
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This tip's objective is to present and describe several T-SQL examples for creating, using, and analyzing GUIDs and assessing their uniqueness.
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I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
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Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers