Question: How to Trim TIME Part in DATETIME Values?
Puzzle – Datatime to DateTime2 Conversation in SQL Server 2017
Earlier last week, I was presenting various questions about SQL Server 2017 at PASS in Seattle. However, during one of the session, I was fortunate to meet SQL Server Expert Christopher Savage. He shared a very interesting puzzle with me. I have been trying to solve the puzzle for a while, but I have no answer for it. Let us see the puzzle about DateTime2 Conversion in SQL Server 2017.
SQL Server – Formatted Date and Alias Name in ORDER BY Clause
CONVERT function can be used to change the format of DATE to various formats like MM/dd/yyy, dd/MM/yyy, yyy/MM/dd, etc. But have you ever noticed that this will produce resultset with a different order if the alias name is used in ORDER BY Clause? Well, I just learned about the formatted date from my recent consulting engagement Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.
SQL SERVER – Simple Method to Find FIRST and LAST Day of Current Date
In my very old post SQL SERVER – Query to Find First and Last Day of Current Month – Date Function, I had explained how to find the first day and last day of the current date.
SQL SERVER – Puzzle – How Does YEAR Function Work?
There are many different datetime related functions such as DAY, MONTH, YEAR, DATEDIFF, etc available in SQL Server. For example, YEAR function can be used to extract year value from a date.
SQL SERVER – Msg 3225: Use of WITH CREDENTIAL Syntax is Not Valid for Credentials Containing a Shared Access Signature
One of my blog readers was having trouble with backup to URL using SAS token. He followed my below blog to fix his issue. SQL SERVER – Backup to URL error: Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.) Now let us look in this blog post how we can fix errors related to credentials.
SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Adding Two Dates Resulting Strange Results
This puzzle, I have discovered accidentally. In one of the recent project, I had to display two dates next to each other. Now, when I was doing this, I accidentally did a mistake while I was typing that out. Indeed, this puzzle about strange results when adding two dates.