Transact-SQL (t-sql) is a dialect of SQL used by Micrsoft's [SQL Server](http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/default.aspx) and SAP's [Sybase](http://www.sybase.com/).
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DELETE failed because the following SET options have incorrect settings: 'ANSI_NULLS'
I have inherited a few scripts that are pumped through a c#.NET custom app to update a SQL2005 SP3 database. One of these scripts does a deletion on a user table called msw_timer_task, based on a ...
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Cannot rebuild index, but there's no reason why not?
I've created a process whereby I am able to only rebuild indexes that need rebuilding(the process takes an hour and a half if I rebuild them all), and while it works beautifully, it gets stuck on one ...
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How to create table set from several XSD in SQL Server 2012 or with VS 2012
Is there any solution in T-SQL or in C# how to create XML schema collection in T-SQL or C#?
Problem is I cannot use:
USE Database_test
GO
CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION Collection_from_XSD AS
N'
...
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Can I use Try_Cast to give me a query result column with different datatypes?
I have a column that is varchar(max). It contains mostly valid XML. But sometimes it has invalid xml (that I still need).
I am trying to make a view for this table that allows the value to display ...
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DB comparer field by field for all tables
I have a liveDB and I have a development DB. Now when I make a change to development DB, I want to find out the changes later when I am deploying my application on server. For eg. I may have added ...
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Disable trigger still fired
I've just run the following t-sql to disable a trigger (with a deploy script wrapper around osql):
disable trigger dbo.trExampleTableInsert ON dbo.ExampleTable
In SSMS I could see the trigger was ...
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How can we get tablename from inside of Trigger Code?
I have requirement that, need to pass tablename from trigger to procedure.
ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[Trg_ProjectCreation]
ON [dbo].[Projects]
AFTER INSERT
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
-- ...
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limit the number of rows returned when a condition is met?
Is it possible to limit the number of rows returned when a condition is met?
I am working on a query to check if a student is ready to graduate, and they need to meet a certain number of credits per ...
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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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Executing a table type parameter stored procedure or function within a select clause
Just a quick question. I have a stored procedure that takes two parameters, a varchar (table name) and a tabletype (range of primary key ID values), and uses them to return all FK connections to and ...
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update statement with self join
I needed to copy information from one row of a table to another.
I noticed I could do the following:
update address
set col1 = a2.col1,
col2 = a2.col2,
.....etc
from address a1, address a2
where ...
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Conditional Where Statement Involving a NULL value?
Trying to find a way to pass off a third value within a 'bit' field. I would like to be able to utilize NULL as a searchable value. As in 'True', 'False', or 'NULL', the only issue is I'm unsure how ...
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Conditional WHERE Clause in a Table Valued Function
I have a table valued function
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[DateRange]
(
@StartDate date,
@EndDate date,
@Location varchar(25),
@Device varchar(25)
)
...
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How to flatten results of a table with two related “many” tables?
I've reorganized some tables in my database to be more flexible but I'm not really sure how to write the SQL to extract meaningful data from them.
I have the following tables (somewhat abbreviated ...
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how cursor implementations are different for each cursor type in sql server
In Oracle, there are only 2 types of cursor i.e. Implicit and Explicit cursor. Which is easy to understand. But, in SQL Server there are 4 Cursor AFAIK i.e. Static,Dynamic,Forward Only and Scroll. ...
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How to handle update or insert situations
From time to time my stored procedures looks like
create procedure handle_data
@fk int
,@value varchar(10)
as
begin
if exists (select * from my_table ...
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how to show only changed rows
if want querying the following table :
EventDateTime (DateTime), Host (guid), Flag ( bit)
2013-04-01 05:00, {id-x}, 0
2013-04-01 05:01, {id-x}, 0
2013-04-01 05:02, {id-x}, 0
2013-04-01 05:03, {id-x}, ...
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T-SQL Script for segmenting data into finer categories based on percentage measure in another table
I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 database with two tables. The first table - Shops - has a list of establishments and the number of shoppers it attracts segmented by criteria A (2 categories) and B (2 ...
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Why is there such a huge performance difference in these two join statements?
I have a query which i first wrote as (query has been simplified a bit) :
select ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY c.CategoryTypeID), c.name, count(p.id) from category c
inner join product p on p.indID = ...
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The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint
I'm trying to delete all users but getting the error:
Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 1
The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FK_M02ArticlePersons_M06Persons". The conflict ...
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Need help in converting this cursor to a set based operation
I have a stored procedure which runs as part of a report database refresh nightly which takes about 2 hours complete. The object B_RPT_RC_AUDIT_ASSIGNED_TO_TEMP_T2 has 8 million rows. Can you suggest ...
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Unexpected Table Scan with Parameterized LIKE
I'm experiencing an unexpected table scan on SQL Server 2005 against a heap table when parameterizing a LIKE statement... but when the same value as the variable is hard-coded, the expected Index Seek ...
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Oracle equiv of T-SQL UNION ALL query
In T-SQL I can accumulate the results of two unioned queries using the following syntax:
SELECT Q.a, SUM(Q.b)
FROM (
SELECT f1 as a, f2 as b FROM TBL1
UNION ALL
SELECT f1 as a, f2 as b FROM TBL2
)
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How can I check for SQL Server performance problems using T-SQL? [closed]
I know how to use the Profiler, Performance Monitor, and Activity Monitor. I want to find a way to troubleshoot performance using T-SQL. How can I check for Microsoft SQL Server performance problems ...
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Programmatically find indexes that cannot be rebuilt online
I am automating rebuild and reorganise indexes using T-SQL. I run into problems with indexes that cannot be rebuilt online. Primarily this happens because ntext/nvarchar columns are included.
Is ...
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Backup stored procedure for full, differential and log backup
I wrote a simple stored procedure for backing up FULL, Differential and LOG backup. This is my stored procedure:
Alter PROCEDURE BackupDB
(
@BaseLocation varchar(1024),
@BackupType ...
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trap xp_logininfo stored procedure error
Sql server 2000, windows 2003 server.
I am trying find all the invalid domain login creates in sql 2000 server in a script using xp_logininfo and get message "Could not obtain information about ...
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Update strings for all cmdexec Jobs
Does anyone know if it's possible, (and furthermore advisable) to update all cmdexec strings in jobs on a server?
We'd like to change our logging location, and in principle I'd think this could be ...
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Execute sp_WhoIsActive as a query
I am at a client where they don't allow Adam Machanic's sp_WhoIsActive stored procedure to be installed anywhere on the SQL server. Does anyone have any suggestions for running it as a query instead?
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how to add attachment(text file) to database mail?
I have scenario
Daily i run a sql job to apply a new updates to one table - this job will create one text file daily - text file contains all new updates
I can send a mail to client that job is ...
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Unique Identifier with Extra Characters Still Matching in Select
We are using SQL Server 2012 with a unique identifier and we've noticed that when doing selects with additional characters added onto the end (so not 36 chars) it still returns a match to a UUID.
For ...
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Copy Permission From Windows Based user To Local user
I want to know if it is possible to copy the permissions of a windows user to a locally created user on SQL server?
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Need a way to query a table, and JOIN it with the TOP 1 related record from an other table
As a follow up to this question, I'm wondering if there is a better and/or more efficient way to gather the data in question.
As stated, this query does return me 95% of the data I need --
SELECT ...
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Why do I need to use a sub query to filter down a grouped select?
If I do this --
SELECT dv.Name
,MAX(hb.[DateEntered]) as DE
FROM
[Devices] as dv
INNER JOIN
[Heartbeats] as hb ON hb.DeviceID = dv.ID
WHERE DE < '2013-03-04'
GROUP BY dv.Name
...
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Help with tricky update statement
I've tried writting this update statement every possible way I can think of but I either wind up producing invalid results or run into a syntax barrier.
I have two table variables:
DECLARE
...
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difference between UPDLOCK and FOR UPDATE
given the following code:
Set conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set RS = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
conn.BeginTrans
...
//This is the line it is about
RS.Open "SELECT a,b FROM c FOR ...
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Is there a sortable ('order by') alternative to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
I'm in the process of looking for a way to find a sortable alternative to a column that is populated with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and I'm stumped at the moment.
I have a web based form with multiple ...
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Is there any difference between putting a column alias at the start or the end of the column definition?
I've always seen and written my column aliases as
SELECT 1 as ColumnName
but today came across a query that used
SELECT ColumnName = 1
Is there any difference in how these two queries get ...
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Subquery in the VALUES clause
Here's a real-world schema:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Setting]
(
[ID] [BIGINT] NOT NULL,
[Module] [NVARCHAR](400) NOT NULL,
[Property] [NVARCHAR](400) NOT NULL,
[Value] ...
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Choosing the right algorithm in HashBytes function
We need to create hash value of nvarchar data for comparison purposes.
There are multiple hash algorithms available in T-SQL, but which one the best to choose from in this scenario? We want to ensure ...
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What exactly does “No Join Predicate” mean in SQL Server?
MSDN "Missing Join Predicate Event Class" says it "indicates that a query is being executed that has no join predicate".
But unfortunately it does not seem to be as easy as that.
For example, very ...
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How to set the timeoffset in a Datetimeoffset column without changing the date part
Is there any way to set the timeoffset of a datetimeoffset column directly without having to use SWITCHOFFSET which changes the date as well?
In the post below, we can see the SWITCHOFFSET will ...
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LIKE character length limitation
The background to this question can be found here.
The following part of my stored procedure does not work. Is there a character length limitation for the LIKE clause? t1.ProductList sometimes can be ...
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Is it possible in SQL Server to change default “order by” direction from asc to desc?
This question came up in a discussion at work... given the following T-SQL statement:
select firstname, lastname from users order by lastname;
the default sort order on the order by clause is asc. ...
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Changing data type from DATE to CHAR(10) with a query
I want to alter the date type in a database that has 40 tables from DATE type to CHAR(10) type, without opening the tables and manipulating them in Management Studio. i.e. only with a script/query.
I ...
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Parameter triggers different execution plan, but why?
I have a table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Numbers]
(
[Date] [date] NULL,
[Time] [time](3) NULL,
[Value] [char](10) NULL
)
and the table has > 10 Billion rows, therefore it ...
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Synchronize Queries Retrieving Sessions And Locks From DMVs
I have a SQL script that I run when I want to see what is happening in the database. The script has many queries that return information from DMVs, but the two I use most are "Requests" ...
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Identify NON-ANSI joins in SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Database that's in 2000 (80) compatibility mode
We have a very old database running on SQL Server 2008 R2. The database is running in 2000 (80) compatibility mode and has oodles of NON-ANSI joins in stored procedures, views and functions.
We need ...
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how to return table on sql function
I am very new to sql create function
i wanted to check data column value at table
the purpose is to return full table where data is null , <0 , >1
the problem is i am trying make data is ...
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Reference the database from a stored proc?
I'm using this T-SQL to get index stats (edited for brevity):
SET @db_id = DB_ID(N'TestDB');
SET @object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'TestDB.dbo.Users');
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats(@db_id, ...
