SQLAuthority News – HP Project Moonshot Interchangeable and Interlockable Servers with Elastically Scale NuoDB

HP has recently released a new product called Project Moonshot.  For anyone interested in databases, server systems, or cloud computing, the description of this new option was intriguing.  On its most basic level, Project Moonshot is a scalable server system, available in small units that are easy to enlarge and…
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SQLAuthority News – World’s Largest IT Training Center

My friend houses the world’s largest IT training center . It comprises over 50 classrooms for imparting training as well as more than 26 hi-tech testing stations. There are also four other campuses throughout India, as well as a center in Dubai, to best suit all the students, no matter where they are. Every campus boasts the same high standards, facilities, and amenities. Let us talk about world’s largest IT training center.

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SQL SERVER – Enable SQLCMD Mode in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #048

The sqlcmd utility is a command-line utility for ad hoc, interactive execution of Transact-SQL statements and scripts and for automating Transact-SQL scripting tasks. Often a developer believes that sqlcmd works with only command prompt, however that is not true. sqlcmd can also work with SQL Server Management Studio. There are lots of cool tricks we can do with sqlcmd while we are using it along with T-SQL.

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SQL SERVER – The procedure attempted to return a status of NULL, which is not allowed. A status of 0 will be returned instead.

Here is one of the very common question I receive on SQLAuthority Facebook page. I usually answer them on Facebook but this one I find it very interesting so I decided to answer here. “There are few of the stored procedure when I try to execute they return following message. Would…
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SQL SERVER – Pass One Stored Procedure’s Result as Another Stored Procedure’s Parameter

This is one of the most asked questions related to stored procedure in recent time and the answer is even simpler. Here is the question – How to Pass One Stored Procedure’s Result as Another Stored Procedure’s Parameter. Stored Procedures are very old concepts and every day I see more and more adoption to Stored Procedure over dynamic code. When we have almost all of our code in Stored Procedure it is very common requirement that we have need of one stored procedure’s result to be passed as another stored procedure’s parameter.

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