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Is it possible?
No.
You can't make an IDENTITY skip a specific value(s).
If you start at -1 and increment by 1, there is always the possibility you will get a 0 in...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 29, 2013 at 3:19 pm
Here's an idea: let the proc get the schema name for you :-), then you don't even have to type it in at all!
create PROC [dbo].[sp_getrecords]
(
@TableName sysname
)
AS...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 29, 2013 at 3:10 pm
Row selection is controlled by "only" 4 tables:
FROM
...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 29, 2013 at 9:41 am
ALTER TABLE dbo.tblemployee
ADD ident int IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT NULL
Edit: Added "NOT NULL"
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 29, 2013 at 9:22 am
Isabelle2378 (8/27/2013)
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 27, 2013 at 4:13 pm
Sean Lange (8/27/2013)
Isabelle2378 (8/27/2013)
My tables do not have primary keys and as I understand it, transactional replication requires primary keys so my question is: Has anybody found a 3rd...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 27, 2013 at 3:45 pm
You might need to use ROW_NUMBER() instead, if there is any chance of a gap/missing number in the EntryID column (note that by definition identity columns can have gaps in...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 27, 2013 at 1:26 pm
Hmm, no point in maintaining indexes for 11 months in which they are not being used.
But 30 days? That's a different q. Typically it depends on the size...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 27, 2013 at 1:23 pm
In Oracle, a TRUNCATE indeed cannot be rolled back. [Oracle uses a fundamentally different way of handling table allocations that would make it essentially impossible for Oracle to rollback...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 27, 2013 at 1:18 pm
GilaMonster (8/27/2013)
davidandrews13 (8/27/2013)
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 27, 2013 at 1:12 pm
mahavidhya24 (8/26/2013)
L TRIM removes all the white space from the starting of the pattern and R TRIM removes all the white space at the end of the pattern.:-)
Sorry, but that's...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 26, 2013 at 3:45 pm
You have to separate the data format the user enters vs. what's stored in the db. It's OK in your app to have the user enter "mon. dd, yyyy"...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 26, 2013 at 10:06 am
mario17 (8/23/2013)
Your code works fine, and much easy to digest ( or learn if you will), amazing.. and thanks again to you and Dwain for sharing this, sure you...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 26, 2013 at 7:54 am
Good points about the Unicode and datetimeoffset (I've never personally used that data type):
-- list column data type, including len(s), if applicable
...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 22, 2013 at 4:48 pm
You should use your own tally table, either a permanent one or a dynamically generated one. Since the permanent one would be clustered on the tally value, it might...
SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".
August 22, 2013 at 4:36 pm
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