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SELECT COL_NAME(969262708, ORDINAL_POSITION) returns a NULL value in one of the rows

So I've got a Stored Procedure that's copying data from one table to another. It calls this other SP to get the column names. I didn't write this darn thing, but here's that part: ALTER PROCEDURE ...
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Stored Procedure Create Table from Variable with Variable Constraint

I have managed use a store procedure to create a copy of a table with a variable name. But I am struggling to understand how to incorporate a constraint into the stored procedure. The problem: The ...
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Stored Procedures under Source Control, best practice

I am currently using Tortoise SVN to source control a .NET Web Application. What would be the best way to bring our SQL Server stored procedures into Source Control? I am currently using VS 2010 as my ...
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Join To a @Table Variable is running ineficiently

Alright so I have a report sproc that was running incredibly slow. Customers were complaining that the report would not run so I started investigating exactly where in the sproc the problem was and I ...
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Create procedure in else block on SQL Server

I have a SQL script in which I generate a database and its tables, stored procedures, views, etc. I have used following script to generate the database and all the things. I was able to generate ...
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Stored procedure performance metrics

I am taking over a new project which is having ~2500 SPs! and would like to know at current state what is the maximum / minimum time taken by each of the stored procs. Also IO, Logical Reads used by ...
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Requesting advice on creating a table controlled SQL job scheduler

I have been tasked with cleaning up a series of SQL jobs that send email updates about various data and system conditions in my company. Currently, there are a ton of jobs, each with its own SQL code ...
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How can I restore the sql_variant_property of baseType back to a table variable in SQL Server

Ok, I know the title is confusing but here it goes. BTW I am using SQL Server 2008 I have a table that I am trying to use as a storage container. It has 3 columns: reportID integer, dataLabel ...
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Separate stored procedures for inserts and updates?

I have a table in Microsoft SQL Server. Sometimes I need to update, and sometimes I need to insert. I could write 2 stored procedures: InsertNewPerson UpdatePertsonById But I was thinking to write ...
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Only a single WITH MOVE clause should be specified for any logical file name

I'm trying to do a copy database by scripting a backup and restore. I have the backup procedure working correctly but I keep getting the error Conflicting file relocations have been specified ...
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“Thread was being aborted” error when inserting 25k rows

I need to store about 25k rows worth of data into a single table about once a week. To achieve this, I'm creating an object (created from parsing XML), and sending the data within that object to a ...
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Another BCP Export [Fail]ure

All, in SELECT Data Set Using Stored Procedure with BCP Error @Remus Rusanu provided a great solution to the problem. However, this evolved in to another problem: this BCP query now runs DECLARE ...
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SELECT Data Set Using Stored Procedure with BCP Error

All, I have a BCP export query. It is failing with the useless error mesage on BCP usage: usage: bcp {dbtable | query} {in | out | queryout | format} datafile [-m maxerrors] [-f ...
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How do I write portable SQL that refers to a linked server?

I've got a stored procedure that refers to a linked server. In several places throughout the procedure I've got something like the following: INSERT INTO [TableName] (...Columns...) SELECT ...
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Who changed/modified stored procedure in SSMS 2005 or 2008? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Determining how a schema change occurred? I have a stored procedure that was modified late last night and just spent the majority of the morning tracing issues back to ...
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Production SQL Server High CPU for a Single Query

I have a single query which is consuming a larger amount of CPU than I would expect in SQL 2008. I am not able to determine why the CPU is spiking for this single query. I can trigger an ...
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How to modify a stored procedure using SQLCMD for MS SQL?

Suppose a stored procedure as follows have been created using the Microsoft SQL Management Studio. use testbase go create procedure testtable_pricesmaller @pricelimit money as select * from ...
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"Could not find stored procedure' even though the stored procedure have been created in MS SQL Server Management Studio

I have created a table testtable inside the database testbase that have the following structure: product_no (int, not null) product_name (varchar(30), not null) price (money, null) expire_date (date, ...
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CATCH block is triggered when it should not

On my neverending quest for shooting myself in the foot with save transaction I seem to have found even more ways to fulfill the quest purpose. The save transaction clause itself this time is out of ...
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RETURN statement before DEALLOCATE CURSOR

Question about use of Cursors in combination with RETURN in a SQL Server 2008 Stored Procedure Consider this example: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[test] @ReturnEarly BIT = 0 AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ...
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Find out what setting were used for a given stored procedure

As a follow-up to my previous question: is there a way to need to find out what the ANSI_NULLS and ANSI_PADDING etc. settings where when a given procedure was created in my database ? It seems my ...
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SQL Server database : moving from 2008 to 2005 - encrypted procedure issue

I could normally use generate scripts / DTS to move data and tables etc. However one of the databases has a large amount of encrypted procedures that I can't script to move. Neither do I have older ...
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Bulk grant execute permissions for scalar functions & stored procedures

We have a situation where we have restored a large number (50+) of MSSQL2008 databases from backup and most if not all of them require that a user is granted EXECUTE permissions on scalar functions ...
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Need a stored procedure to check and update row when it does not already exists.

Need a stored procedure that will check and then update the rows (with username & email) except the id (auto incremented with a unique one). For example, if id = 5 has, the username abc and the ...
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Passing in the table into a stored procedure

Is it possible to pass in the name of a table into a stored procedure? For example, suppose you have several views of the same table. They all have the exact same structure. You want a store ...
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Merge multiple table output but indicate which tables the records came from

I have an application with a function that uses a stored procedure (SQL Server 2008 R2) to pull in and arrange data from one table. Now, I’ve been asked to make it pull from two tables, but it’s not ...
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Stored Procedure doesn't show result in SQL Server

I have created a stored procedure (to be used in SSRS) that has parameters whose values are more than one. When I execute this stored procedure in SSMS by providing the values for that parameter, SP ...
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In a CASE Statement, which is faster: “WHEN [field] in (0)” or “WHEN [field] = 0”?

I'm looking at a stored proc that another guy has written and every WHEN clause is using an IN statement instead of =. My gut tells me this isn't as fast, efficient, etc. For example: CASE WHEN ...
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Granting Execute Permissions on Stored Procedures, Functions and Views

I am using a user which has read permission only. It basically has permission to Connect Execute However, it does not have execute permissions on Functions and Stored Procedures. In part of my ...
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Executing a stored procedure on remote database

I have 2 databases on the same server. DB-A and DB-B. DB-B has a user that has read and write access to database B. I would like to grant the user in DB-B execute permissions to 2 stored procedures in ...
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How can I detect broken stored procedures after a schema change?

I've modified a central table in my database, and sp_depends literally returns hundreds of results, and I'm concerned some of those stored-procedures might not compile anymore after my change. ...
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How to change database owner for login and database created inside stored procedure?

I have a signed stored procedure that creates a new database, a new login and assigns the new user to be the owner of the new database. Well my SProc creates the new login and new database but will ...
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Should I put the error handler inside the loop, or the loop inside the error handler?

When a procedure is looping over a statement that could raise an error condition, should I put the loop inside the error handler, or put the error handler inside the loop? I want the procedure to run ...
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Table-Valued Parameter as Output parameter for stored procedure

Is it possibile to Table-Valued parameter be used as output param for stored procedure ? Here is, what I want to do in code /*First I create MY type */ CREATE TYPE typ_test AS TABLE ( id int ...
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SQL Server many active create procedure processes

While troubleshooting performance issues on a SQL 2008 instance, I've noticed there are several SPIDs which appear to be executingcreate procedurestatements for already existing procedures. Is this ...
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SQL Server 2008 T-SQL select hanging, but not dead locked

This is a pretty strange issue so bear with me. I have a stored proc that does some heavy duty processing. When it runs well it usually takes a few minutes depending on server load, but occasionally ...
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SQL Server RandomNumbers Stored Procedure Error

I tried to create a stored procedure for generating random numbers but it doesn't work; the random numbers are identical in every record. CREATE PROCEDURE Update_Driver_Position @TempName ...
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Stored procedure executes too long

We use SQL Server 2008. When I am watching in SQL Server Profiler I found some queries that take for example 20 seconds. The same query (in a stored procedure) when executed in SQL Server Management ...
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Print database_size from sp_spaceused

Using SQL Server 2008, I have found that the database size can be obtained using exec sp_spaceused This procedure returns two tables: database_name | database_size | unallocated space reserved | ...
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How to optimize this dynamic stored procedure

I have a stored procedure which is retrieving data using 20 tables. Sample of the procedure: CREATE PROCEDURE GetEnquiries ( @EnquiryDate DATETIME = NULL ) AS ...
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How can I know which store procedure or trigger is using a table on SQL Server 2008 R2?

This is the case that in the DB I'm checking, there is an archive table which keeps the user history, and there is a trigger or store procedure that after some time delete rows from this table, in ...
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SQL Server: How to call stored procedure without schema name?

SQL Server 2005std/2008web edition db=user=schema=owner='John' I'm moving website from one server to another. This piece of code works well on old server with SQL Server 2005. Dim sqlCmdVehicle ...
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how do i bulk copy a huge amount of data and keep the same table updated through stored procedure in SQL SERVER [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to move data from big table In my project i need to fetch datas from different tables in a data base and create a new table with the same colmn names for all those ...
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How to start and then stop one cyclic process

I have to start cyclic process in a stored procedure and then have to stop it after some time (after 12-24 hours). Stored procedure's work should not be started twice. SQL Server client (caller) ...
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How do you ORDER BY a parameter?

Just wondering if I could solicit some feedback on a stored procedure I'm running and whether there's a more efficient way of handling the scenario (I'm pretty sure there will be!). Basically I have ...
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Can I call SMO from pure T-SQL?

I know how to script a stored procedure using PowerShell and SMO: [System.reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo") | out-null ...
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SSMS: Show execution plan for a stored procedure as a single tree

I execute a stored procedure with an option "Include Actual Execution Plan". The execution plan always is represented by multiple statements each of which has its own execution plan. MSDN states the ...