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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dissecting Joins

Recently I asked a question in dba.stackexchange the question was about data hierarchy in sql and a guy named chris allen answered the question and I really loved it but when I try to understand that ...
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Returning rows where all non-NULL values are equal

Is there a simpler T-SQL construct for "all of these columns to be equal (NULLs ignored) on a row" - effective I want to say: WHERE MIN(a, b, c) = MAX(a, b, c) OR COALESCE(a, b, c) IS NULL this ...
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How to link each column in sql?

I have been working around on a query given by one of my developers who works on crystal reports as a junior DBA, I always like to help them even though I am busy with other things as it will increase ...
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RAND in T-sql function

Can any one tell why t-sql not allowing using RAND function in side a function SELECT CAST (RAND() * 10000000 as varchar(20)) the error is Invalid use of a side-effecting operator 'rand' ...
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Performance on SQL Join

I have a query which takes ages to run mainly due to a join between 2 tables on a PK and FK. The Key is prefixed with 2 letters (which is always the same, RN) followed by 7 digits So RN1234567 for ...
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T-SQL Purpose of MAX in this Group By Query

I have run into some pre-existing SQL that I'm having a hard time uderstanding. SELECT MAX(I.Symbol) Symbol , MAX(I.Ticker) CUSIP , MAX(I.Name) Name , SUM(H.Quantity) TotalQuantity , ...
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Pivoting row contents to produce one dimensional result

I have a table with a varchar column containing pipe-delimited values For example: Row 1 Column 1 = a|b|e|gg|foo Row 2 Column 1 = oV|foo|do Row 3 Column 1 = boop How can I query this to return ...
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Print variable of same datatype

I am looking for to print two variables of same datatype I have something like this declare @one int ,@two int set @one=1 set @two=2 print @one+@two obviously it will give a result 3 but I need ...
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Restrict update on certain columns. Only allow stored procedure to update those columns

I have sensitive price columns that I would like to have updated only through a stored procedure. I would like all code or manual attempts to alter values in these price columns to fail if it is not ...
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Trying to Build TreeView Query in T-SQL

I have parent records in two tables, Table1 and Table2. Some records in Table3 are children of Table1, and some are children of Table2. I would like to build a query that I can use to populate a ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 - Weekly / Monthly Statistics

I'm new working with SQL Server 2008 R2 Express, and I´d like to gather some statistics every week / month for users who are connecting to this server. For instance, how many times they were ...
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EXISTS and sub-query cost

i've just wondered if there's a difference in cost(memory,cpu) of an EXISTS or NOT EXISTS in following queries. Does it make a difference if i select NULL, 1 or columns? 1) SELECT id FROM Parent p ...
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Non-Clustered Indexes - keys and nonkeys

I just want to make sure I'm on the right track with these concepts, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Here's my theory from the query I've just optimised, through a process of trial and ...
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Speeding up COUNT(*) - WHERE clause slowing query

The following query takes 497 ms to run, if I remove the AND portion onwards it only takes 320 ms. Is there any way to speed this up? The only indexes I have on 'messages' table is a PK on ...
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sysschedules datatype choices

I am Curious. Why does TSQL save the values in msdb.dbo.sysschedules for date and times as ints instead of using datetime. I assume the reason dates back to something in SQL Server 2000. Was it a ...
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Using FLOATs with RAISERROR

I am using RAISERROR() to provide some basic Unit Testing functionality (as here), but I am frustrated by the inability to use FLOATs in the error message. I know I can cast the float to a string, but ...
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Can I Rebuild indexes in a DB except for one table?

I have a table in my database that is constantly monitored by an application server for changes. Unfortunately rebuilding the indexes connected with this table breaks the app server's connection. This ...
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Return a percentage of the full record set

I'm pulling back a list of orders but I need to only display a percentage of the records. for example we want the top 30 or top 50. The percentagbe is variable so I'd like to not use TOP. I tried ...
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Design best practices for last tracking with indexed view

My tables structure is below : TbDoc (ID int , ...) TbDocActions( ID Int, DocID Int, Date DateTime, col1 int, col2 int, ...) I want to have indexed view to get last TbDocActions columns for ...
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difference of left join and left outer join

In SQL Server join syntax we can use LEFT JOIN or LEFT OUTER JOIN and query result with each of above join not difference. this is a question for me that which are more useful.
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Is there a better way to create dynamic time averaged series over a dynamic frequency?

I've got a series of tables with lots of high precision data collected from various devices. The intervals that they were collected on varies and even wanders over the time series. My users want the ...
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Grouping records based on intervals of time

I have a table with the following schema, and I need to define a query that can group data based on intervals of time (Ex. records per minute) and then provide the sum of the changes to the ...
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TSQL Get minute part from time data type

With the time data type (I'm using Microsoft SQL Server 2008), is there any way to take only the minute part out of it? I tried to pass the time to datepart and datediff function but both refused to ...
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Subqueries' aliases same as main queries' aliases

I have an SQL query whose aliases are the same as some of its subquery's aliases. For example: select * from ROOM r where ... ( select * from ROAD r ...
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What's the difference between a temp table and table variable in SQL Server?

This seems to be an area with quite a few myths and conflicting views. So what is the difference between a table variable and a local temporary table in SQL Server?
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How can I create different sets of sequential values based on another column in a table?

I've got a table that holds two types of notes. Collection Notes and Delivery Notes. They are identical data structures, hence using the same table. CREATE TABLE Notes ( Id int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT ...
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Why is the output of this query being returned like this?

I have a T-SQL query : select CAST(0 as float(53)),CONVERT(nvarchar(max),CAST(0 as float(53)),128) the output of which is 0,0.0E0 Can some one explain why it is not 0,0 ? The database is SQL ...
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Execute Stored Procedure against CMS from within a SQL Server Agent job

Is it possible to execute a stored procedure (or any T-SQL) against a Central Management Server (CMS) via a SQL Agent job? The idea here is to exercise the CMS to hit all the registered instances ...
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Execute Queries Against CMS within SSRS Reports?

Is it possible to execute queries against a Central Management Server (CMS) using SSRS? For example, I know of no way to tell a stored procedure that it is inherently supposed to call the CMS, so it ...
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How to check when statistics was last executed?

We've been having a number of issues with our indexes lately which our DBA team has attributed to statistics not having been run recently. This has made me wonder - how can I check if statistics have ...
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SQL Server function invocation syntax question

The following excerpt is extract from this page. CURRENT_USER (Transact-SQL) Returns the name of the current user. This function is equivalent to USER_NAME(). When I execute the two ...
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T-SQL, show a set of rows (specific column) as a field, for a better desc, please see the table relationship

I have been having a problem for quite a while now, that I can show with a sample of 5 tables (I'm actually dealing with more than 5!): -------------------------------- shipments ...
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The order of INNER JOIN's

I would like to know if there are any rules about the order of INNER JOIN's in T-SQL 2000. I had 62x the performance on my query when my INNER JOIN that act like a filter is placed at first instead ...
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TSQL - Bringing Data Together from Different Sources …refactoring PK and FKs

I have various offices and one central head office. Each office has its own SQL Server instance so each office has its own data set with its own set of IDs. Each office has already imported data ...
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T-SQL to list all the user mappings with database roles/permissions for a User

I am looking for a t-sql script which can list the databases and and the respective roles/privileges mapped for a particular user. Using SQL Server 2008 R2. Regards Mohammed
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What is SQL/PSM and how does it differ from other versions of SQL?

I have searched SQL/PSM and I have learned that it stands for 'Structured Query Language/Persistent Stored Modules', but what I want to understand is what that really is and how it differs from T-SQL ...
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T-sql: Select most specific match from table

Apologies for the horrible title. I couldn't come up with a better way to briefly describe the problem. Here's the scenario: Users can set up service instructions to be attached to a work order ...
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How to get text for default language

I have so tables: and so data at Language table: and so data at Text table: I have to return text for requested language if it exists and text for default language if it does not exist. Is it ...