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This is a guest post from one of my good friend and Developer Ranjoyt Singh. He is a dedicated and committed person professionally and personally. We developers come across many times in a situation where we need to change the sort order in which results of a query are displayed.
» Read moreYou can configure the SQL Server replication agents such as, the Snapshot Agent, Log Reader Agent, Queue Reader Agent, Distribution Agent, and Merge Agent to capture more information about error messages and procedure calls to a text file. For example, you can capture the additional information about error messages and
» Read moreContains one row for each system error or warning that can be returned by Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server displays the error description on the user’s screen. You can get the List of all the Error codes or messages as USE master GO SELECT * FROM sysmessages You will get
» Read moreA self-join is joining a table to itself. This is done by using table name aliases to give each instance of the table a separate name. Self Join is very useful when you want to compare values in a column to other values in the same column. Self join and
» Read moreSQL Server database administrators frequently need in especially development and test environments to find and kill all the blocked process. Following scripts are useful in that scenario. Script – 1 — Find All the Blocked Processes SELECT spid, status, loginame=SUBSTRING(loginame,1,12), hostname=SUBSTRING(hostname,1, 12), blk = CONVERT(char(3), blocked), dbname=SUBSTRING(DB_NAME(dbid),1, 10), cmd, waittype
» Read moreThere are two new Logical functions are introduced in Denali. Let‘s have a look IFF CHOOSE IFF It Returns one of two values, depending on whether the Boolean expression evaluates to true or false. IIF is a shorthand way for writing a CASE statement. It evaluates the Boolean expression passed
» Read moreRanking functions return a ranking value for each row in a partition. Depending on the function that is used, some rows might receive the same value as other rows. Ranking functions are nondeterministic. There are four functions RANK DENSE_RANK ROW_NUMBER NTILE RANK Returns the rank of each row within
» Read moreThis book has been authored by Rick A. Morelan. If you are a SQL Developer, you must read the series of this book. Highlights of the Book The Contents of the 2th Volume of the SQL Queries Joes 2 Pros Data information and Tables Query Options Null, Expressions, and Identity
» Read moreMy one friend calls me and asks where I find the Object detail in SQL Server 2008. This is very simple but may be some people are in the same situation and finding the Object Explorer Details in SQL Server 2008. That‘s why here sharing Object Explorer Details and SQL
» Read morePARSE() and TRY_PARSE() are new conversion function introduced in SQL Server Denali. TRY_PARSE() tries to translate the result of an expression to specified data type if the translation is possible, otherwise, it returns NULL. PARSE() tries to translate the result of an expression to specified data type if the translation
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