I’ve been following your blog for quite a while now and have great respect for you but I’d like to ask why you recommend the use of @@ERROR after transaction blocks instead of using a BEGIN/END TRY; BEGIN/END CATCH; and checking the errors from within there.

I notice that this thread is very old and I guess you just haven’t updated it or am I missing a trick?

Cheers

Chris

I have a question about the LIKE keyword..

I have 1 table named tbl1 and a column in it is Discount.

in the discount column may contain a ‘%’ symbol (not necessary. Eg: 10%,100Rs)

How can I find all values that contain the character ‘%’ using LIKE operator?

very thank’s pinal sir

Recently, i came to know about your blog. Lot of information gathered by me going through your site. Awsome!!!!.

I need to know more about cluster services and replication services offered by SQL 2005. Effective use of both, advantages and disadvantages.

Thanks and regards

Rajgopal

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.AutoGenerateID
(

@UserId char(15)

)
RETURNS char(15)
AS
begin
declare @date_extract char(8)
declare @id_extract char(10)
declare @max_id char(20)
declare @userid1 char(15)
declare @id_size char(10)
declare @temp1 char(15)
declare @data char(10)

set @max_id = @userid

set @date_extract = left(@max_id,8)
set @id_size = LEN(@max_id) – LEN(@date_extract)
set @id_extract = right(@max_id,@id_size)

set @data = convert(varchar,getdate(),112)

if ( @data = @date_extract)
set @id_extract = id_extract + 1
else
set @id_extract = concat((repeat(’0′,@id_size-1)),’1′)
set @date_extract = date
end if
set @userid1 = concat(@date_extract, @id_extract)
set @temp1 = LEN(@max_id)-(LEN(@userid1))

set @userid1 = concat(@date_extract,concat(repeat(’0′,@temp1),@id_extract))

return @userid1

GO

Yes, It is quite common to use Keywords in UPPER CASE.

It may be difficult to write and read in beggining but after a while it becomes second nature.

@Stephen,

I usually answer questions through email if I think it will be not useful to others.

If I think it is useful to everyone I post on blog.

Kind Regards,
Pinal Dave ( http://www.SQLAuthority.com )

I agree with what your saying though, even then typing in caps is the correct way to do it, I perfer to type my Sql in PascalCase so that it matches the style of my other languages.

I have one question. Do you really write all the SQL language keywords like (SELECT, FROM, JOIN, ON,…) with capital letters? From my newbie perspective this is 1) quite tiring to write; and 2) quite tiring to read. My eyes and fingers don’t like it.