SQLAuthority News – SQL Data Camp, Chennai, July 17, 2010 – A Huge Success

I had great pleasure to attend very first SQL Data Camp at Chennai on July 17, 2010. This event was very unique as this was very first one-day SQL Event in whole Indian Subcontinent. The event was blast as there were so many back–to-back SQL Sessions with SQL Server MVPs.…
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SQLAuthority News – 2 Sessions at TechInsight 2010 – June 29 – July 1, 2010

Earlier this month, I got the opportunity to visit Malaysia for community sessions on June 29 – July 1, 2010 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which I would consider as valuable experience. I presented two different sessions at the event. The event was extremely popular in local community, and I had…
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SQL SERVER – FIX: ERROR: 8170 Insufficient result space to convert uniqueidentifier value to char

I just came across very simple error and the solution was even simpler. While concatenating NEWID to another varchar string, I had to CONVERT/CAST it to VARCHAR and I accidentally put length of VARCHAR to 10 instead of 36. It displayed following error.

Msg 8170, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Insufficient result space to convert uniqueidentifier value to char.

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