Presenting a technical session is a greatest experience one can have and I enjoy doing the same. While I write this blog post, I am presenting at Great Indian Developer Summit in India. The event is a grand success and I am having a great time at this event. One of the questions which I often receive is how do one can add the column to existing table which will be auto-populated with the current datetime when the original row is inserted. There is indeed a simple solution to achieve this goal. One has to just create table with default value as a current datetime.
SQL SERVER – TRIM Function to Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces of String – SQL in Sixty Seconds #040 – Video
Trim is one of the most frequently used operation over String data types. A developer often come across a scenario where they have the string with leading and trailing spaces around string. If your business logic suggests that the logs around the spaces are not useful they should be trimmed. However, in SQL Server there is no TRIM function. When a TRIM function is used it will throw an error.
SQL SERVER – Difference Between CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and GETDATE() – CURRENT_TIMESTAMP Equivalent in SQL Server
A common question – I often get from Oracle/MySQL Professionals: “What is the Equivalent to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in SQL Server?” Here is a common question I often get from SQL Server Professionals: “What are differences between Difference Between CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and GETDATE ()?” Very simple question but have showed up so frequently that I…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Fix Error: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error ‘80040e07’ or Microsoft SQL Native Client error ‘80040e07’
I quite often receive questions where users are looking for solution to following error: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error ‘80040e07’ Syntax error converting datetime from character string. OR Microsoft SQL Native Client error ‘80040e07’ Syntax error converting datetime from character string. If you have ever faced above…
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SQL SERVER – Find Weekend and Weekdays from Datetime in SQL Server 2012
Yesterday we had very first SQL Bangalore User Group meeting and I was asked following question right after the session. This question is about to Find Weekend and Weekdays from Datetime in SQL Server 2012.
SQL SERVER – Function to Round Up Time to Nearest Minute Interval
Though I have written more than 2300 blog posts, I always find things which I have not covered earlier in this blog post. Recently I was asked if I have written a function which rounds up or down the time based on the minute interval passed to it. Well, not earlier, but it is here today about how to create a function to round up time to nearest minute interval.
SQL SERVER – Retrieve SQL Server Installation Date Time
I have been asked this question a number of times and my answer always has been “Search online and you will find the answer.” Every single time someone follows my answer, he finds the accurate answer in just a few clicks. However, this question is getting very popular nowadays, so I decided to answer this question through a blog post. Let us learn about how to retrieve SQL Server installation date time.