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SQL SERVER – Top 10 Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2005

May 7, 2007

Top 10 Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2005 By Cihan Biyikoglu SQL Server 2005 has hundreds of new and improved components. Some of these improvements get a lot of the spotlight. However there is another set that are the hidden gems that help us improve performance, availability or greatly simplify…

SQL SERVER – 2005/2000 Examples and Explanation for GOTO

May 7, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Database, SQL Scripts, SQL Utility

The GOTO statement causes the execution of the T-SQL batch to stop processing the following commands to GOTO and processing continues from the label where GOTO points. GOTO statement can be used anywhere within a procedure, batch, or function. GOTO can be nested as well. GOTO can be executed by…

SQL SERVER – Creating Comma Separate Values List from Table – UDF – SP

May 6, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts

Following script will create common separate values (CSV) or common separate list from tables. convert list to table. Following script is written for SQL SERVER 2005. It will also work well with very big TEXT field. If you want to use this on SQL SERVER 2000 replace VARCHAR(MAX) with VARCHAR(8000)…

SQL SERVER – UDF – Function to Convert List to Table

May 6, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts

Following Users Defined Functions will convert list to table. It also supports user defined delimiter. Following UDF is written for SQL SERVER 2005. It will also work well with very big TEXT field. If you want to use this on SQL SERVER 2000 replace VARCHAR(MAX) with VARCHAR(8000) or any other…

SQL SERVER – 2005 Enable CLR using T-SQL script

May 5, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

CLR, SQL Advanced Option, SQL Scripts, SQL Server Security

Before doing any .Net coding in SQL Server you must enable the CLR. In SQL Server 2005, the CLR is OFF by default. This is done in an effort to limit security vulnerabilities. Following is the script which will enable CLR. EXEC sp_CONFIGURE 'show advanced options' , '1'; GO RECONFIGURE;…

SQL SERVER – UDF – User Defined Function to Find Weekdays Between Two Dates

May 5, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DateTime, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Utility

Following user defined function returns number of weekdays between two dates specified. This function excludes the dates which are passed as input params. It excludes Saturday and Sunday as they are weekends. I always had this function with for reference but after some research I found original source website of…

SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : Msg 7311, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Cannot obtain the schema rowset DBSCHEMA_TABLES_INFO for OLE DB provider SQLNCLI for linked server LinkedServerName

May 4, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server Security, sqlcmd

You may receive an error message when you try to run distributed queries from a 64-bit SQL Server 2005 client to a linked 32-bit SQL Server 2000 server or to a linked SQL Server 7.0 server. Error: The stored procedure required to complete this operation could not be found on…