What does SEND do in SQL Server 2005?

What does REVERT do in SQL Server 2005?

HTML Email Using SQL

This would help you to send HTML email using T-SQL script, you just need to provide necessary parameters and you would have HTML email.

What result would you expect from this statement?...

Date Time Range or Calendar Generator

This function returns a formated calendar table. It came in handy a few times for me, so I thought it may be a good contribution. There would be a few better ways to create this function if date-part were a valid data type. It is a pretty straight-forward function. You may edit it if you […]

SQL Server 2005 for SQL2k Developer (Part 1)

There are many changes in SQL Server 2005, especially for the SQL Server developer. New options, features, and changes in the way you program. New author M. Choirul Amri brings us the first in a series on the changes from the point of the developer.

Update a table column with a sequence number v2.0

In response to Sachinvaishnav's search for a better way to insert a sequence number column in the same table, I bring you a cursor free Sql server 2005 example that utilizes the new ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY) Function available in 2005

What will be the result of the last...

Given a SHARED spreadsheet called C:\Test.xls, with three...

Try/Catch Block in SQL Server 2005

Server 2005 now supports a more programmable error trapping convention in T-SQL code. This error handling is known as the TRY/CATCH block. The TRY/CATCH block allows T-SQL to handling errors like other programming languages, such as Microsoft Visual C# and C++. In addition to the TRY/CATCH block, Microsoft has expanded the set of available system functions in SQL Server 2005 for returning error codes and messages when an error occurs in your T-SQL code. This article will explore the new TRY/CATCH block and explain the new system functions for returning error codes and messages.