Earlier this week, I have blogged about how to suppress Warning: Null value is eliminated by an aggregate or other SET operation SQL SERVER – Warning: Null value is Eliminated by an Aggregate or Other SET Operation. Let us learn about the error STring or Binary Data would be truncated.
SQL SERVER – Warning: Null value is Eliminated by an Aggregate or Other SET Operation
Working with NULL’s are always a challenge – not many developers understand how NULL works sometimes. In a related note, long back I wrote below blog in which I explained two set options Quoted Identifier and ANSI NULL. SQL SERVER – QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON/OFF and ANSI_NULL ON/OFF Explanation In future blogs,…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – The Basics of the Execute Package Task – Notes from the Field #067
[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Field series. SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) is one of the most key essential part of the entire Business Intelligence (BI) story. It is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. In this episode of the Notes from the…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Script to Find Leap Year
A leap year has 366 days. A leap year has 29 days for February month. Suppose you want to find if year is Leap year or not, you can use many methods. But this is one of the simplest methods. In our example I have passed the year 2000 as…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Error: Fix for Error Msg 3906 – Failed to update database because the database is read-only
Some error messages are a great source of troubleshooting when things go wrong. I always request my blog readers to read what the error messages are conveying. Most of the solutions are very much documented as part of the message. I must agree that over the years the error messages…
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SQL SERVER – Viewing User Configurable Info in SQL Server
Most of the blog post as I say is revisiting something I wrote a while back in this blog. Recently one my blog readers asked me about user defined counters and he seems to have bumped into the blog: How to use Procedure sp_user_counter1 to sp_user_counter10 and was thinking if…
Read MoreInterview Question of the Week #006 – Is Shrinking Database Good or Bad?
Here is the most debated Interview Question – Is Shrinking Database Good or Bad? I will try to answer this in a single statement – “Shrinking Database is bad practice for performance as it increases fragmentation. It should be used in rare cases of running out of space on drive.” I believe above…
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