Comments on: SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 – Release Date in May 2010

By: David

David — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:30:23 +0000

Pinal,

There is one BIG point to watch out for with 2008 R2, which just caught us by surprise. It’s not documented anywhere that I can find. Only in blogs and forums where people have hit this trap.

We have production and test servers running SQL 2008. We do not have “Software Assurance.”

We downloaded and installed SQL 2008 R2 on our development computers.

We developed new databases, then tried to copy and attach the files to a test server. We got this nice message:

“The database ‘dbName’ cannot be opened because it is version yyy. This server supports version xxx and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported.”

So everybody watch out!
Database files from “2008 R2″ are NOT compatible with “2008.” They changed the file structure, and thus the “database version.”

If you have paid extra for “Software Assurance,” then you can get a “free” upgrade for your 2008 servers. Basically, though, you can’t upgrade to R2 unless you send money to Microsoft one way or another.

Microsoft SHOULD HAVE released R2 as “SQL 2010″ and version 11.x. But they did not, even though this is a major breaking change.

By: Brian Tkatch

Brian Tkatch — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:19:14 +0000

@senjay

If it isn’t in the TABLE, where is it coming from?

Please provide some sample data and a sample result.

By: senjay

senjay — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:34:59 +0000

hai

i have a table named products.

it has date,price and description as columns.

i want to retrieve the values within specified date range and if not previous date

example

if i give the year as 2009

if not in table it should return 2008 or 2007 or some previous year value for different description and different price as in table

Thankx:)

By: Brian Tkatch

Brian Tkatch — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:28 +0000

Change * in the subquery to the single column name wanted from that table/function.

By: Ramdas

Ramdas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:06:06 +0000

The Streaminsight technology looka very interesting, read an article on sqlservercentral about it. It looks at real time business intelligence and working with continous stream of input data.

By: Ramdas

Ramdas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:04:56 +0000

Hi Senjay,
It seems like you are trying to get two result sets in one query. The result from the table valued function probably has to be inserted into a table, then join that table to the query containing select facility.
You could possibly post the complete query…then we can check it out.

By: Feodor

Feodor — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:29:56 +0000

Here is an article about some of the new features included in the R2: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3857466/Top-10-Features-of-SQL-2008-R2.htm.

Also, here is a page on Microsoft with some pricing details for the R2: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2-editions.aspx

By: senjay

senjay — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:12:08 +0000

small mistake i have made

(select * from dbo.GetPrizeForCubist(@EndDate))as ‘Prize

not the function name and the function is

(select * from dbo.Getreport(@EndDate))as ‘Prize

By: senjay

senjay — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:08:27 +0000

Hi pinal

i have created the table valued function Getreport with parameter @Deliverdate

i have also created SP GetReportDetails with various columns in select list and selecting the Table valued function in subquery as follows

SELECT FacilityId,Name,Address1,
(select * from dbo.GetPrizeForCubist(@EndDate))as ‘Prize’

IT returns the error as

(95 row(s) affected)

(101 row(s) affected)

(65 row(s) affected)
Msg 116, Level 16, State 1, Line 53
Only one expression can be specified in the select list when the subquery is not introduced with EXISTS.

i dont have enough knowledge with this error.

provide me the solution

Thankx:)