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By: Raghul

Raghul — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:17:31 +0000

@rafi.tdata
SELECT MAX(column_name) FROM table_name

By: rafi.tdata@gmail.com

rafi.tdata@gmail.com — Sat, 28 May 2011 14:51:45 +0000

i have three columns like

stno stmar1 stmar2 stmar3

01 65 90 99
02 90 100 65
03 03 90 100
04 99 20 22

in this table i want max marks of top 3 student information

please solve this problem

By: levpius

levpius — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:36:01 +0000

I like your solution though it was kind of already put by Pinal

SELECT COUNT(1) AS number_of_records
FROM tabla

By: Kadir Evciler

Kadir Evciler — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:35:07 +0000

I think this is the best way to count of any
table (It’s in sp_spaceused code)

SELECT SUM (CASE WHEN (index_id<2) THEN row_count ELSE 0 END) FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID('Table')

Regards

By: Manish

Manish — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:26:48 +0000

Try

SELECT rows FROM sysindexes WHERE id = OBJECT_ID(‘table1′) AND indid < 2

Thanks
Manish

By: Sudarshan

Sudarshan — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:05:48 +0000

SELECT rows FROM sysindexes WHERE id = OBJECT_ID(table1) AND indid < 2

Did not work.
can u guide to me for this?

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By: pete blackwell

pete blackwell — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:54:19 +0000

Just an idea question if you don’t mind providing your insight.

We have an application which several regular processing jobs. Each job may call any number of programs which individually update the database.

Periodically, one of these programs may fail, so we want to put the database back to the state it was before any of the programs in the job ran. Since they are separate programs we can’t use a transaction.

The only way I know how to do this is to backup the db prior to the job starting, or recover using the a prior backup the and associated log file.

Is there a way to mark the db as it is at a given time, and then rollback to that point without involvement of a database backup? I was hoping if full logging was on that this would be possible, but I don’t see anything that would help with this.

If you reply, could you please send reply to my email address (you can post it as well if you wish)?

Thanks much,
Pete Blackwell

By: Kumar

Kumar — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:54:56 +0000

Hi,

I want to check the expiration date of sql server 2008 evaluation copy. And also want to verify the licenesed version of sql server 2008 standard edition’s validity period.

please guide me.

Expecting your reply.

Regards
Kumar.

By: sri

sri — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:36:10 +0000

hi pinal

This site is very nice…lot of information is there ..
if it possible plz provide printer friendly option

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:48:17 +0000

4 way to get an accurate count of the number of records in a table:
SELECT COUNT(1) AS number_of_records
FROM tabla

By: Red Bull

Red Bull — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:51:23 +0000

I guess there is a type mistake in this, instead of @@ROWCOUNT, @@Recordcount is mentioned.

By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:45:25 +0000

Hi Pinal

Want to clarify, you wrote
Enterprise Editions only supports log shipping.

Standard editions also support log shipping (and mirroring) as well

By: kumar amit

kumar amit — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:33:27 +0000

pl send me on this mail id.
thanks
Regards;
amit;

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