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Merge statement and identity insert - SQL Server
Today I asked by my friend for merge statement and identity insert, how to insert identity column data using merge statement? I posted for the merge statement without identity insert. Please read that...
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#0235 - SQL Server - T-SQL Deprecated feature - Start using semi-colons as...
A while ago, I read a post from Aaron Bertrand (B|T) regarding an appeal to start using semi-colons actively as statement terminators. Semi-colons as statement-terminators has been around for as long...
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SSIS - Split single row to Multiple rows
Its been a long long time since I have blogged. So have I been away from forums hence no ideas to blog. I was back at forum today and got a nice scenario. How do you split a single row to multiple...
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#0239 - SQL Server 2012 - Msg 402 - The data types datetime and time are...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 came with a wide array of T-SQL enhancements. One of them was the ability to split a DATETIME value into DATE and TIME values. From a storage standpoint this allowed us to...
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Could not find the Distributor or the distribution database for the local...
A few days back, I spoke about the manual failover of mirroring and also explained one issue and workaround too. Continuing with the same failover, I want to express one more issue here. This issue is...
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Question of the month February 2013 - How does HAVING clause work without...
When you run the following codeselect name from sys.objects having 1=1you get the following error Msg 8120, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Column 'sys.objects.name' is invalid in the select list because it...
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Merge statement with TOP clause - SQL Server
A week ago, I posted for Insert, Update and Delete statement with TOP clause and Merge statement as individual post. If you not read those posts then read it before to move next. In this posts I used...
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Print screen for Remote Desktop
Earlier on Beyondrelational I read a tip, for the same topic. combination of keys Shift + Print screen, allows us to take screen shot of Remote Desktop. But recently I faced problem using these keys....
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Skip distributor agent error in sql server transactional replication - How to
A while before few weeks, I discussed about an error of replication “The row was not found at the Subscriber when applying the replicated command”. We had a tricks to get discrepancies for error table...
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Import data - solving data convertion and truncation error
Often developers use Import wizard from SSMS or SSIS to import data from a text file into a table. You may or may not import it successfully based on the nature of the data.Create a text file named...
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GO statment
Today i studied an interesting thing related to GO statment See in the following queries executed .***The batch preceding GO will execute the specified number of times***. create table test( id int not...
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How to increase the number of characters retrieved from the server for XML...
You may worked with xml and you may aware of title mentioned in this post. Today when I was working to collect information from one table which having xml column, I was trying to open xml data result...
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BCP - Changing the default column terminator
BCP is one of the fastest methods to export data to various formats like csv,txt,etc and doing this in a command mode is faster than doing it via SSMS.Let us create this simple tablecreate table...
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Adding/Modifying files and filegroup in Database - SQL Server
You all know about the database file structure as whenever we created databases without specifying file location and filegroups , they will be created in default path and default filegroup. Here i have...
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Handling multiple resultsets returned from Stored Procedure
One of my friends asked me if it is possible to load multiple resultsets returned from a stored procedure into a temporary table for some analysis purpose. The answer is "It depends". If all the...
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Failed to acquire connection. Connection may not be configured correctly -...
This week, I resolved one issue which I received continuously which is noting but exactly displayed in post title. The issue occurred when I ran ssis package with batch file or scheduled job and same...
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Conditional aggregation - SUM Vs COUNT
You can do conditional aggregation like SUM(CASE WHEN .. THEN 1 ELSE 0 END),....etc to find a count for a particular match. This type of conditions are useful when you want to write a CROSS-TAB/PIVOT...
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Moving table or indexes on another filegroup - SQL Server
Because of data growth and performance issue we need to move tables or indexes to other filegroups. The purpose of moving tables or indexes to improve the database performance as it reduce I/O from...
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The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs' - SQL...
Recently while working with one query to get schedule jobs status, i used xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs object which gives details of state values of all jobs in msdb database and this is undocumented object....
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When exactly scheduled jobs started and completed - SQL Server
Some days ago, i worked to get failed jobs detail and an alert for the same. I used some system tables from msdb database to fetch the details for same. And msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory is one of the table...
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Money datatype and formatted values
Money is one of the datatypes in SQL Server and it can be used to store monetary values. It will not only accept integer and decimal values but formatted values too. For example you can express values...
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DROP command with multiple tables
There is a question in the forum where questioner asked "I created lot of temporary tables like #temp1, #temp2, #temp3, etc. Is there a way to drop them all in a single statement?" Well. Not many...
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SQL Server does not allow to create a TEMP table twice in the same batch,...
In SQL Server, a temporary table with the same name could not be re-created in the same batch, even if you drop and re-create. The following script clarifies the concept. Try by self CREATE PROCEDURE...
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Understanding how ISNUMERIC function works
Often I hear from people that ISNUMERIC function is not working properly and there is a bug. One example people refer is that both of ISNUMERIC('12d2') and ISNUMERIC (',') return the value 1. Well. The...
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Different methods to extract decimal part from a number
One of the questions asked in a forum. "What are the different methods to extract decimal part from a number?".There can be several methods. These are the ones I know. Method 1 : Substract the INTeger...
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