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» Read moreIn SQL Server 2012, seven new datetime functions have been introduced. EOMONTH is one of them. Â This is really useful function because many times we need to find the last date of month. Syntax: EOMONTH ( start_date [, month_to_add ] ) Find Last Day of Current Month Example: SELECT EOMONTH
» Read moreIn SQL Server 2012, seven new datetime functions have been introduced. DATEFROMPARTS is one of them. Syntax: DATEFROMPARTS (year, month, day) DATEFROMPARTS returns a date value with the date portion set to the specified year, month and day, and the time portion set to the default. If the arguments are
» Read moreThere are seven new datetime functions are introduced in SQL Server 2012 as motioned below DATEFROMPARTS ( year, month, day) DATETIMEFROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, milliseconds ) DATETIME2FROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions, precision ) DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions,
» Read moreWhile restoring the SQL database error occurred… Through UI following error occurred Through Script following error occurred Script: RESTORE DATABASE mydb FROM DISK = 'D:\ DB Backup\mydb.bak' WITH MOVE 'mydb_Data' TO 'E:\Database\mydb.mdf', MOVE 'mydb_Log' TO 'E:\Database\mydb.ldf', REPLACE GO Msg 3203, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Read on “D:\ DB
» Read moreHow to find collation of current database? There are two different ways to find out SQL Server database collation. Using T-SQL SELECT DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Database_Name', 'Collation') as SQLCollation; Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Right Click on the database Go to Properties You will get the dialog box as shown in the
» Read moreSometime we faced the following error message while restoring the database Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database. Solution: Use WITH REPLACE while using the restore script as Script 1 RESTORE DATABASE YourDB FROM DISK = 'C:\YourDB.bak' WITH REPLACE Â Script 2
» Read moreT-SQL TSQL is a proprietary procedural language used by Microsoft in SQL Server. PL-SQL PL/SQL is a proprietary procedural language used by Oracle Microsoft’s T-SQL is similar to Oracle’s PL-SQL to some extent, sharing with some basic difference as below Difference in data type, There are many different data type.
» Read moreGO is not a Transact-SQL statement, even it used in the Transact-SQL. It is a SQL Utility command. Â SQL Server utilities interpret GO as a signal that they should send the current batch of Transact-SQL statements to an instance of SQL Server. The current batch of statements is composed of
» Read moreIn SQL Server, there are two ways with we can pass parameters to procedures. INPut parameter OUTPut parameter INPut parameter These types of parameters are used to send values to stored procedures. OUTPut parameter These types of parameters are used to get values from stored procedures. This is similar to
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