RAISERROR with a severity of 16

"And I would like to call this function 6 times in the end."

Why ?

There is a very simple set based solution using CASE.

Using the Northwind demo database:

--...

See Books onLine topic "query governor cost limit" which will not allow SQL statements that exceed the ESTIMATED run time to start.

Since there may be a time window when long...

I missed "NOT" in my statement.

Should be:

System stored procedures do NOT follow the same execution convention as user stored procedures so that the SQL batch "EXEC importeddb.dbo.sp_grantdbaccess 'user'" will actualy...

How very curious. I got the same results and also used the undocumented command "dbcc log (logtest, 1 )" to view the transaction log entries for a database named...

System stored procedures do follow the same execution convention as user stored procedures so that the SQL batch "EXEC importeddb.dbo.sp_grantdbaccess 'user'" will actualy run versus the importeddb not versus the...

Do not if this will work:

1. Shut down the SQL Server instance.

2. Rename the master data and log files.

3. Copy the master data and log files from...

There is no way to report space used by datafile as this information is not in the system tables, only in the space management pages.

One may get object space usage...

Why does it not work for multi-datafiles ?

Please note that it reports by FileGroup, not by File.

Also, everything is rounded to MBs not Kbs.

Here is a test case:

create database SizeTest...

Here is what I run every Sunday evening versus over 100 servers that is at the Database and File group level:

set nocount on

create table #DBSpace

(DbNamesysname

,FileGroupNamesysname

,AllocatedMbinteger

,UsedMbinteger

,FreeMbinteger

,FreePercentinteger

,AutoGrowMbdecimal(12,2)

,AutoGrowMaxSizeinteger

)

exec master.dbo.sp_MSForEachDb @command1 =

'dbcc updateusage([?])...

Check constraints cannot include a computed column, See below for the first set of DDL that does not have a computed column and then with a computed column.

This makes sense...

In the future, please provide DDL and sample data

See reasons and instruction at http://www.aspfaq.com/etiquette.asp?id=5006

create table MyTable

(a integer not null

, b integer not null

, c integer not null

)

insert into MyTable

(A,B,C)

select...

As brendthess has indicated in detail, the business rules that you have posted are incomplete and the most critical missing rules are the primary keys and foreign keys constraints for...

The logic is

For each Order and Discount combination, the count of ordered products qualifying for the discount is equal to the count of products for the same discount.

This assumes...

I will be posting a solution shortly but in the meantime take a look at Joe Celko's Article titled "Relational Division" at http://www.dbazine.com/ofinterest/oi-articles/celko1