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SQL SERVER – Marking Filegroup as ReadOnly with SQL Server

March 17, 2015

My love for writing about ReadOnly databases have pushed me to explore more about this topic. Based on previous blogs, few readers did ask me that they heard about marking filegroups as ReadOnly and they wanted to know how this can be done. This blog post is in continuation to…

SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation with Currency Symbols

March 16, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

The currency symbols like $ and £ are implicitly treated as money value in SQL Server If you run the following code SELECT $ SELECT £ You can see that both of the above statements return the value 0.00 It is also possible to use them in arithmetic calculations SELECT $+5 returns 5.00…

Interview Question of the Week #011 – Script to Convert List to Table and Table to List

March 15, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Now today’s interview question is really more of daily routine task for many of the developer. 11 years ago, when I went to my very first interview call. My interview was scheduled at 6 PM in one of the very well known corporation. The corporation was known for its first…

SQL SERVER – SCRIPT – SQL Listening on Dynamic Port?

March 14, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Server Security

With every release of SQL Server, sometimes I need to revisit some of the old blogs to see how they have enhanced. This learning experience is an ongoing process and the best way I learn is by doing a search on the blog from time to time. Long ago I…

SQL SERVER – Interesting Function AGENT_DATETIME

March 13, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DateTime, SQL Function

One in a while I come across such interesting side of SQL Server that it even surprises me. Just the other day I came across function AGENT_DATETIME. I had never used it before and now I just found usage example of the same. There can be several methods to convert…

SQL SERVER – The Basics of the File System Task, Part 1 – Notes from the Field #071

March 12, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SSIS

[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Field series. Every time I give an introductory note, however, this time there is no need of intro note. This note is from Andy and as we all know he is amazing person when we have to understand the fundamentals. He…

SQL SERVER – Error – Msg 6401, Level 16: Cannot roll back Transaction

March 11, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages

In a recent Usergroup meet that I attended someone asked me this simple yet interesting question about how transactions work and is there any concept like nested transactions inside SQL Server. Though I have talked about this in the past, thought it would be worth revisiting this concept to drive…