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Give access to view or table?

I want to give an external user (new login) read access to part of the data model from my Database. The user will copy the data model and content from my Database, and then integrate that into their ...
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Trying to find the last time that a value has changed

I have a table that has an ID, a value, and a date. There are many IDs, Values, and dates in this table. Records are inserted into this table periodically. The ID will always stay the same but ...
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Simplify subqueries with join

I'm trying to create a report in SQL Server Reporting Services that shows the availability of multiple sites. The sites are monitored by a tool that uses a SQL Server 2012 database to store the data. ...
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EXPORT specific columns to INSERT statements

Is there a way to export specific columns and a fixed number of rows from a table to INSERT statements? I am trying to generate these for unit testing based on a large production table so using ...
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Difference Between SP with BEGIN/END and without BEGIN/END

I have found some SP(stored procedure) written as, CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[XXX] ( -- Parameters ) BEGIN --- Actual Work END and some as CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[XXX] ( -- Parameters ) --- ...
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Searching for keywords in fulltext indexes using the “contains” function

Lets assume "and" is not a stopword, in my language it should not be. How do I search for it using the contains function? It is a keyword, but how do I escape the keywordness? No luck with: SELECT ...
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Fulltext search limiting users possibilities

We have a web site with a search box. The search uses a fulltext index column. However, we just cant feed the text the user has input into this stored procedure. CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[SearchPages] ...
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Running a DELETE stored procedure but finding degradation in performance in WHILE loop as iterations increase

Have a quick general question. I have a table I'm trying to purge a table. I'm deleting using a WHILE loop with WAITFOR DELAY time of 50ms between batches and 2000 records per batch. The real issue is ...
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Create a sub query for sum data as a new column in SQL Server

Suppose that I have a table named tblTemp which has this data: | ID | AMOUNT | ---------------- | 1 | 10 | | 1-1 | 20 | | 1-2 | 30 | | 1-3 | 40 | | 2 | 50 | | 3 | 60 | ...
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Strategies for summary data in parent record based on detail data?

I have parent-child relationship as shown below. I need to find the first order date for each customer. Obviously, writing a query to do this is fairly straight-forward but it does require reading all ...
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Good example of long stored procedure? [SQL Server] [closed]

I have a 400-line stored procedure that I need to copy and refactor for my own purposes. I'm new to SQL but I do think that the stored procedure that I'm working with can be cleaned up. I have been ...
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Error 0xc02020f4: Data Flow Task 1: The column cannot be processed because more than one code page [closed]

SQL SERVER : i executed an query and i got result of 8 million data. I have to create a table out of this result output. SO i simply save the result out to table1.csv. Now when i try to import ...
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Sql Server Server Group query

Scenario I have 4 front-end sql server. All of them have the same db instances. Data are replicated from back-end databases. Issue In SQL Management Studio I have registered the servers and I have ...
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Execution Plan not matching Stored Proc

Below is a stored proc to count the number of widgets made in a month. If no widgets are made, no records will exists. The execution plan shows an INNER JOIN of the M and A tables, where in the ...
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How to add custom sequence number in table which is going to be populated automatically

I have table something like this CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ado_test_table]( [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [tip] [varchar](10) NOT NULL, [datum] [datetime] NOT NULL, [doc_number] [int] ...
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Autogrow of database1_log file in database database1 took 1010871 milliseconds

in past i had a problem of that query been executed for 7 days. i couldnt find any solution. so i created again new database with indexes. Now i am running a simple query: UPDATE query query has ...
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Create a Leveling of Intermediaries [closed]

I have a table called Intermediary, which have some columns like CREATE TABLE Intermediary ( IntermediaryPK INT , IntermediaryID NVARCHAR(20), IntermediaryName NVARCHAR(200), IntermediaryTypeID ...
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validate where each parent intermediary is also a parent to itself [duplicate]

I want to validate where each parent intermediary is also a parent to itself. So this query should return invalid parents in SELECT If table has any. I need to do is first of all get all parents ...
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How can I run a T-SQL Script using SQL Credentials?

I need to develop a T-SQL insert script for use on a remote SQL 2005 Express instance but I would like the script to include the necessary SQL credentials so all the user has to do is execute the ...
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How to improve the performance for SQL Server Count(distinct()) and Sum() functions? [closed]

The below one is my query. It's taking 12 seconds for the execution process. The count(distinct()) and SUM() functions are taking long time for execution. I tried it after create the non-cluster index ...
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Is it “legal” to CREATE and DROP #SomeTable more than once?

I've got my code sort of segregated as "coherent blocks" that I can insert into a longer "configuration script" over and over, and one of the patterns I'm using is this: CREATE TABLE #WidgetSetting ...
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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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Disabled trigger still fired [closed]

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 table name from inside trigger?

I need to pass the table name from trigger to procedure. ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[Trg_ProjectCreation] ON [dbo].[Projects] AFTER INSERT AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; -- procedure call ...
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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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