Interview Question of the Week #055 – How to Convert ASCII to DECIMAL or DECIMAL to ASCII?

Question: How do you convert ASCII to DECIMAL or DECIMAL to ASCII? Answer:  ASCII – Returns the ASCII code value of the leftmost character of a character expression. CHAR – Fixed-length non-Unicode character data with length of n bytes. Examples: --Decimal to ASCII SELECT CHAR(80)+CHAR(73)+CHAR(78)+CHAR(65)+CHAR(76) ASSQLAuthorityAuthor GO --ASCII to Decimal…
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SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 4335, Level 16, State 1 – The specified STOPAT time is too early

While trying to prepare for a demo, I ran into some interesting error. When I searched for error about STOPAT on the internet, there were not many clear answers so I thought of sharing on my blog. Actually, my demo was all about point in time restore feature of SQL Server. I was trying something similar given in my earlier blog.

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SQL SERVER – Dedicated Database Development with SQL Source Control

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We all make mistake and we all wish that we have not made those mistakes. In the field of the development, there are proper solutions, but in the world of SQL, there are not many solutions. I recently asked the same question to my friend Andrey from Devart and he has provided me a wonderful blog post about how one can do dedicated database development with SQL Source Control.

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