This query will tell you everything you need to know about all columns in all tables, including collations:

SELECT
C.TABLE_CATALOG AS SourceDB, C.TABLE_SCHEMA, C.TABLE_NAME,COLUMN_NAME
, ORDINAL_POSITION,COLUMN_DEFAULT, IS_NULLABLE
, DATA_TYPE , CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH,...

• This reply was modified 7 months, 1 weeks ago by Steve Jones - SSC Editor.

The idea is good. However, order of executing generated scripts is important. When you DROP constraint, the its definition is lost, there will be no way to generate ADD CONSTRAINT.

For...

It seems main goal of current new technologies is to convince people who do not know something that they are experts in that very field. Of course, they have to...

Imagine if somebody passes this parameter:

SET @Where = '1=1; DELETE TAble1, DELETE TAblee2...'

I assume the parameter comes from a front end app. SELECT part will execute, but...

There are other ways of importing text files. You can try MS Access and import CSV into a new table, then examine the data. It is much simpler than directly...

The first subquery likely returns more than one row, and it should return one row only. Check it.

insert into NewKms8081..members
SELECT
       (select...

I do not check SQL central every day, so I missed the article when it first appeared. I am in my 7th decade too, and potential dinosaur. Somehow, most of...

If constraints are added, as many as possible, the data will be safer then without constraints. If there is error handling, either in external code or in SQL procedures,  error...

Need to cleanse data comes from acceptance of dirty data to begin with. It happens and there is apparently nothing we can do about it.

There are two cases of data...

Collation for #Temp table is the same as default collation for the server.  Table definition

CREATE TABLE #NearTermData(
[UNDERLYING_SYMBOL] [nvarchar](10) NOT NULL,
[QUOTE_DATE] [date] NOT NULL,
[EXPIRATION] [date] NOT NULL,
[ROOT_SYMBOL] [nvarchar](10)...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Zidar.

So far, AI seems to be capable of complex procedural tasks. It is like solving equations manually versus using MATLAB. Now everybody can solve linear equations, by means of MATLAB...

Or maybe create and keep a table, Calendar, that contains a record for each date in given interval. If your calendar table contains all dates from say, 1950-01-01 to 2150-12-31...

I apologize for the delay, was out of town for a few days.

Thank you for refreshing the script and the explanation.

I noticed that when listed in proper order, a picture...

Is there a primary key on Inventory table? It would help understanding what is going on.

My solution is similar to what Eric M.  as Russell proposed, except for me not using identity. The version of CheckColumn would be

CheckColumn  int UNIQUE CHECK (CheckColumn IN (1,2,3)) NOT...