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Easier way to handle so many isnull() situation

Is there any good way to avoid writing so many times isnull() function inside sproc ? I have stored procedure that use almost 30 times isnull() function, I think that I am miss a concept , but until I ...
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Questions about handling NULLs and empty strings in nvarchar and numeric fields

I understand that questions similar to these pop up often around here. I have searched before posting these but I didn't find any QA threads that completely answer my questions. In a table, I ...
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Dealing with NULL values and EMPTY strings in UNION of two tables

I want return records from two database tables when a record differs in at least one of the fields. I have written a query for it using the UNION operator. It is working absolutely fine. However, I ...
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Checking a wide table for nulls [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Test if any fields are NULL I am new here. I have a table with 70-odd columns. Is there a way I can check the number of rows with at least one null value in any column ...
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Adding SPARSE made table much bigger

I have a generic log table, about 5m rows. There's a "strongly typed" field that stores event type, and a bunch of "losely typed" columns that contain data relevant to the event. That is, meaning of ...
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Why is replication attempting to distribute NULL values into Identity columns

We are sporadically getting this error: Explicit value must be specified for identity column in our replication environment. I have checked the transaction command that is reporting the error and it ...
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In SQL Server 2008, how can I get all the columns that are marked as nullable in their schemas even though no records contain NULL for those columns?

In my legacy database, a lot of the time the schema needlessly allows null entries for particular columns. To help find out which columns in particular, I need to do some querying of SQL Server 2008 ...
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How can I help SQL Server recognize my view column is NOT NULL-able?

I have the following indexed view defined in SQL Server 2008 (you can download a working schema from gist for testing purposes): CREATE VIEW dbo.balances WITH SCHEMABINDING AS SELECT user_id ...