SQL Server DATE/TIME Workbench
The definitively "hands-on" guide to handling dates and times in SQL Server
2006-10-25
2,883 reads
Miscellaneous
SQL Server Adventures for the Oracle DBA
Oracle and SQL Server are both database platforms built on SQL, but there are vast differences between them. Janet Wong brings us a tale of her experiences in moving from Oracle to SQL Server as a developer.
2006-10-19
8,158 reads
Mind Your Manners
Whether you use the forums here or post questions in the venerable Usenet usegroups, there are some basic courtesies you should follow. Sushula Iyer takes a minute to list some things that might help you get your next question answered quickly and completely.
2006-10-18
4,637 reads
Switch Databases
This script changes the physical, logical and file names of a database. It stores the current database until the next time the script is run, and creates a dummy database for the next update. The intent was to have minimal downtime even though the load (import, snapshot, etc.) may take a long time. Three copies […]
2007-02-22 (first published: 2006-10-17)
696 reads
Implementing a T-SQL semaphore
SQL Server does a great job of handling concurrency & ensuring that users can make changes in multi-user systems without conflict. However there are times a strict calling order is needed.
2006-10-17
20,436 reads
Dealing with Database Concurrency Conflicts in the Real World
Database concurrency conflicts are somewhat of a plague in software development because they're hard to predict and handle. Unfortunately, they're also hard to prevent.
2006-10-11
2,638 reads
Proper Luhn AddCheckDigit for any length #
Most of the luhn scripts assume that you are working with credit-cards and then IMPROPERLY calculate their luhn check-digit by starting at the left side (assuming that the core number is always 15 digits). However, if you don't know the length of your core number, then such an approach will fail when the length is […]
2006-10-10
299 reads
scrript to convert datatypes of multiple columns
generates an runs a select statement to convert all th olumns of a certain datatype in apirticular table to another datatype:eg all columns of type int to varchar etc the sp takes three parameters namely the table name, source data type and detination data type generates a select query ad executes it eg: exec ConvertTableTypes […]
2007-07-10 (first published: 2006-10-10)
211 reads
Stress Testing SQL Server
Properly sizing your SQL Server hardware and testing application loads against them is a complex and difficult topic. Anthony Bressi brings us a great new article that gives you a systematic approach to performing your own stress test.
2006-10-10
24,422 reads
Detect invalid FK-data after using "WITH NOCHECK"
In situations where FK's have been created using the "WITH NOCHECK" option you can get into troubles because the FK-data is not checked ! (so there may be invalid data in the FK-column !)E.g. ALTER TABLE [dbo].[mytable] WITH NOCHECK add constraint [FK__USED_RESO__Actio__1162CF5F] FOREIGN KEY ( Action_Type ) REFERENCES [dbo].[Action_Types] ( Action_Type ) BOL states "... […]
2007-05-29 (first published: 2006-10-09)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers