Questions tagged [sql-server-2012]
SQL Server 2012 (major build version 11.00.xxxx). Please also tag sql-server.
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Performance Tuning
I need input on the below queries in terms of which one is better from performance perspective.
Query#1:
DECLARE @Var1 NVARCHAR(15) = NULL; -- This variable can have NULL or specific value
SELECT ...
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Inserting Millions Records Into A Table With Identity Column In Sql Server
I was changing the primary key column to different column on a table which contains about 300 million records in itself. I used the table design screen to change it but it got time-out. And, i decided ...
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Which is faster in Windows service and Sql server Jobs and Why?
I am working on a application and we have created a stored procedure which is updating and selecting some data. We have not used Transaction in SP.
Now we are calling this sp from windows services and ...
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Sql server sleeping state is increasing using ADO.NET?
We have one live ASP.Net application which is used by around 1000 concurrent users. In this application we have used connection pooling. There are 2 connection string defined in web.config with ...
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Incremental backup between now and backup taken one week ago
We do a full backup of our SQL Server 2012 database every night.
A new developer needs an incremental (or differential) backup of a backup we took one week ago. The reason is that for them, ...
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Informatica MD5 function vs SQL Hashbytes MD5 function
I am hoping someone has some crossover experience here. I am attempting to utilize the Hashbytes function within SQL to match a value that is being generated utilizing the MD5 function from ...
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TDE Encryption and “Recovery Pending” After Service Reebot
I've recently enable the TDE Encryption in a SQL Server 2012.
I've setup de Encrytion key and the certificate in Production and exported to the Test Environment in order to copy/update test environmet....
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Log Shipping and Daily Backup
My SQL Server 2012 DR setup is a mess. We've had a maintenance plan in place from the beginning that takes a daily full backup, with hourly log backups. Recently, we set up log shipping to an off-site ...
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See details of old sessions
Is there any way of seeing details of sessions from the past (I fully expect the answer to be "no"). I am trying to find out what server a certain application is running on, that application accessing ...
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Passing Variable in json_value in sql server 2016 [duplicate]
declare @id int
set @id = 1754
select
(JSON_VALUE(cast(ad.data_map as varchar(max)),'$.dataMap."1754".value')) CorrespondanceNumber,
(JSON_VALUE(cast(ad.data_map as varchar(max)),'$.dataMap.***"'+...
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What impact on the index storage size does overprovisioning of varchar types have?
Does over-provisioning varchar columns (as in using varchar(100) to store values from 1 to 10 characters long vs using varchar(10)) have any impact on the index storage size and if yes than why?
I ...
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Does Data Migration Advisor migrate system databases?
I would like to know if Data Migration Assistant copies system databases (master, model, msdb) into the new server.
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Report Service stopped unexpectedly
The SSRS service stopped unexpectedly and the workaround was to recycle the app pool and then restart the service, but no clue of what happened.
When looking at the error log below:
<Path>C:\...
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A Procedure Causes Some Blockings In SQL Server [on hold]
There is a stored procedure in my sql server database and it causes so much blockings for itself. Here is the code. How to solve this issue?
USE [FATURA]
GO
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo]....
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How can I achieve the below case in marketing cloud without using loop? [on hold]
I have a table like this
and in the table you can see
123 losing to 456, 456 losing to 789 and 789 losing to 101112 and in the same fashion for ID's 5 and 6.
In this case I want to replace winner ...
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How can I get rid of this Lazy Spool, or otherwise improve this query's performance?
Here is the plan: https://www.brentozar.com/pastetheplan/?id=rkM8d7ONS
I am mostly interested in how to get rid of the lazy spool?
This is the query:
SELECT DISTINCT
SM.Security_ID '...
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What would be the suitable certification for SQL Data protection and privacy? [closed]
This posting is not related to any specific issue. I couldn't find suitable Certification code related to SQL Data Protection , Privacy , SOX ( Sections 302,404,408, 409 etc..)
What would be the ...
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When are statistics created?
I know that when we create an index then statistics are automatically created. My question is: Is it the only case when statistics are created? I remember that once I found on the internet that we ...
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How can I use SQL Profiler to capture a single stored procedure
Using SQL Server SQL Profiler, which configuration can be used to monitor a single stored procedure? I'd like to capture all EXEC sprocName to include the parameter list. I'd like to capture this ...
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Is it useful to index a column if it is already the first column in a composite index? [closed]
Suppose I have this table (simplified from my project):
create table BillTax
(
BillID int not null constraint FK_BillTax_Bill foreign key references Bill(BillID),
TaxCode varchar(20) not null,...
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How to loop data month wise for the targeted dates [closed]
I need to load data from a primary table to an archive table by month or week.
As an example, I have a table called transactions with a column named return_datetime where I have 5 years or data.
I ...
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Implementing gMSA account for SQL FCI
I have a question on implementing gMSA account for managing authentication to SQL server.
Our goal is to use gMSA account to manage the auto password change activities for SQl server service and it's ...
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restart sequence when the year changes
Is it possible to do a sequence with Start at 1 and INCREMENT 1, and when changing the year, restart the sequence?
-- code# Create a sequence
CREATE SEQUENCE SEQ_ALUNO
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY ...
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Not able to migrate DTS package from SQL Server 2008 to 2012. Getting errored out
Requirement: We need to migrate SSIS/DTS package from SQL Server 2008 to another machine having SQL Server 2012 on it.
Steps performed so far:
1. First I exported the package from Source server to ...
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SQL Full Backup job is taking too long to complete
I am facing a strange issue with daily FULL backup. We have a total of 23 databases. We have 1.21 TB big database in this SQL server 2012 Standard Edition. We are taking daily FULL database backup for ...
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A table with all fields NULLable with important, sensitive data
I have a requirement for a database table to hold sensitive patient information about their lifestyle (alcohol/ drug use / injecting etc).
On screen the information is sectioned into tabs - "alcohol",...
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Table with 80 foreign key
I have a table with 120 columns and most of them (around 80) are foreign key . We are refactor some of main table in our system . I was thinking of change this table to divide in small table because ...
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SSIS package || Scheduling in SQL Server 2012
We are tring first time to create SSIS package for export the Data from SQL table to Excel.
Using this tutorial in SQL Server 2012.
Now package has been created. But we are stucked in scheduling it....
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Why do MS SQL Server SEQUENCEs not have an ORDER parameter like Oracle?
In the documentation of CREATE SEQUENCE for T-SQL, you can see that the CREATE SEQUENCE command has no ORDER parameter.
For comparison, the Oracle docs for CREATE SEQUENCE show the ORDER/NOORDER ...
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I cannot get my data source to connect to an SQL Server named instance using SSRS Report Builder
I have a report in SSRS and I want to update the data source to use a named instance instead of the default instance. The server host will remain the same.
I thought this would be easy. I simply ...
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pivot on date and count values by hour
I hope this makes sense. I have a database which logs the day and time a row was inserted. I have a query which will select and count the number of insertions per hour.
I would like to pivot this so ...
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Get the matching condition in the SELECT list
Let's say my full text search query is below:
USE AdventureWorks2012;
GO
SELECT Name
FROM Production.Product
WHERE CONTAINS(Name, '"chain*" OR "full*"');
GO
I need one more column that ...
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MS SQL giving separate result on same parameters using application & query editiors
I have a SQL stored procedure which gives out result based upon the days passed in parameters.
I miss the weekend day (Saturday) from result if I call the stored procedure from my application but I ...
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Check if the value from one table exists in another tables in SQL Server
I have one table (tbl1) with column ID, the values can be duplicated. I have others tables (tbl2, tbl3...) with column ID , values are unique.
I want to write a trigger on insert row in tbl1 and check ...
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How can I configure a connection string in SSRS 2012 using named pipes?
I have SQL Sever 2012 and I want to create a data source that uses named pipes rather than TCP.
This is when I have tried:
Data Source=np:\\.\pipe\MSSQL$MSSQLSERVER02\sql\query;Initial Catalog=...
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Is this a symptom of an overloaded server?
I've been trying to diagnose slow-downs in an application. For this I've logged the SQL Server extended events.
For this question i'm looking at one particular stored procedure.
But there are a ...
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Different security levels for one SSRS report
I am trying to grant limited access for one report per user. For example, the report consist of multiple cities and each city has profit info within them but the users should only be able to see the ...
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How to mask a column permanently in SQL Server? [duplicate]
I have to create an UAT testing environment of my production database and hand it over to developers, but I want to mask certain columns permanently, so they cannot view the actual data at all.
How ...
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How To Grant A User Just To Create A Table In Existing Database But Not To See Other Existing Tables In It
We have dealed with an outsource company to install an application for use of our accounting department. Now, they want to access our existing database to install their application but i don't want ...
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How to recalculate and adjust the entire row of time in and time out in sql server?
In SN = 1, I have an original schedule of 09:15:59 with my first time in is 09:50:57 so that I am late about 34 mins. In SN=2, 13:27:05 is my time out. In SN=4, I time in again of 15:40:13 that gives ...
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Delete unused indexes from Microsoft Dynamics CRM Application
So I found tons of unused indexes from our CRM application with this query from Pinal:
SELECT
o.name AS ObjectName
, i.name AS IndexName
, i.index_id AS IndexID
, dm_ius.user_seeks AS UserSeek
, ...
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Capture SQL Server queries without third-party tooling and without using deprecated features?
Is it possible to capture all queries sent to an MS SQL Server, without third-party tooling and without using deprecated features?
I'm looking for something similar to the "general query log" in ...
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Usage of NON Clustered Index in SQL Server
I have 2 Index:
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_1] ON [dbo].[TableA]
(
[Column1] ASC,
[Column2] ASC
)
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_2] ON [dbo].[TableA]
(
[Column3] asc
)
Now I have 2 ...
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How can I combine these three queries into one result?
I'm still pretty new at SQL, so I apologize if this is a silly question. I took existing queries for three data points, and I'm not sure how to streamline them into a single output.
Clunky query:
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Available space differs between sys.database_files and database properties dialog in SQL Server Management Studio
I am looking at this for a few minutes now and could not find a thread mentioning this.
I wanted to query currently used space and available space from a database on SQL Server.
The numbers I query ...
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Line breaks handled inconsistently by SSMS
Probably more of a SQL Management Studio question than SQL, per se, but when I run the following simple query:
SELECT results = 'Foo' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) + 'Bar'
I appear to get different results ...
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Add windows user to a particular database in SQL Server
I have a windows user who I want to add to just one database SalesDeals on the server. I added them in SalesDeals-> Security -> Users section of the Database and gave them db_datareader ...
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How to Query Which Table Is Inserted Mostly In SQL Server?
I have a database and there is not any trigger which follows the transactions in said database.
Now, I have to make a report that shows which table has mostly inserted so far. How can I do that?
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SQL Server 2016 - Disparity Between View Definition and View Design
I've run into an interesting issue with some databases I've inherited, and could use some help unpacking it all.
The Issue
After adding a column to a table, views selecting * from that table are now ...
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Defaulting a column to the 1st of next month
I'm trying to find the most elegant means of defaulting a column's value to the 1st of next month. The best I've been able to come up with is this:
ALTER TABLE Foo ADD
Bar datetimeoffset(0) NOT NULL ...
