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By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:37:09 +0000

Yes it will be converted to varchar. But for Dates, if you want to have specific format you need to use convert function anyway

By: Chandrashekhar Singh

Chandrashekhar Singh — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:31:13 +0000

Hi Nikhil,
It is not required to use the Concat() function only. Pinal is trying to say that without any data coversion we can concatenate.
Try this for your clarification-
PRINT ‘Current Time :’+ Cast(GETDATE() as varchar(20))
With the CONCAT()(SQL 2012 feature) function you need not to do any explicit Data Coversion.
Pinal, let me know if I am wrong.

Regards,
Chandrashekhar

By: Chandrashekhar Singh

Chandrashekhar Singh — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:23:36 +0000

Hi Kiran,
Please try the below query to check the Owner- select suser_sname(owner_sid) from sys.databases where name = ‘DBNAME’

Do you want to Unlock a user or a DB?
Regards,
Chandrashekhar

By: kiran reddy

kiran reddy — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:10:01 +0000

hi pinal sir,

am having a query, please tel the steps for this query..

The database is used by a group of individuals. It appears to now be locked. Is there any way to tell who is the owner of XYZ ?

And say me steps to unlock the database.

thankyou..

By: Nikhildas

Nikhildas — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:08:05 +0000

Hai Pinal Sir,

The Concatenation Function will also work in older version of SQL Server With as CANONICAL Function.

SELECT {fn CONCAT(‘Current Time :’, Cast(GETDATE() as varchar(20)))}

PRINT {fn CONCAT(‘Current Time :’, Cast(GETDATE() as varchar(20)))}

But it won’t work without casting the getdate()

Please let me know ,If you feel any wrong from me.

Thanks & Regards,
Nikhildas

By: kkaarthickitk

kkaarthickitk — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:49:26 +0000

Thanks for this post, really nice , i learned one new thing today…Keep continue this………

By: Chirag Satasiya

Chirag Satasiya — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:41:24 +0000

Hi pinal sir,

Thanks to Vinod, Jacob and Rick for this suggestion.

There are lots of Good function coming with SQL Server 2012.
Thank you for updating.

Regard$
Chirag Satasiya