I have previously written about the difference between UNION ALL and UNION multiple times over this blog but it seems like this question never gets old and I keep on getting the question again and again. Let us learn about the different operations about the unions.
SQL SERVER – Return Specific Row to at the Bottom of the Resultset – T-SQL Script
“How do I return a few of my resultset rows at the bottom of the entire resultset?”
SQL SERVER – Get High Availability with SQL Server 2012
The SQL Server 2012 offers a plethora of solutions for high-availability that assures 99.999% server and database Availability. These solutions enhance database and server availability, hide the failures of software or hardware and maintain application availability to curtail user downtime. It simplifies management and deployment of high availability systems with incorporated monitoring and configuration tools. It also enhances performance and cost efficiency of IT utilizing up to four Active Secondary. An SQL Server 2012 High Availability course helps you develop capabilities that contribute in taking your career to new horizons. Some of the key capabilities are utilizing standby hardware to the fullest, implementing disaster recovery and high availability and raising the total application uptime significantly.
SQL SERVER – Enable SQLCMD Mode in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #048
The sqlcmd utility is a command-line utility for ad hoc, interactive execution of Transact-SQL statements and scripts and for automating Transact-SQL scripting tasks. Often a developer believes that sqlcmd works with only command prompt, however that is not true. sqlcmd can also work with SQL Server Management Studio. There are lots of cool tricks we can do with sqlcmd while we are using it along with T-SQL.
SQL SERVER – Fix : Error: 217 Implicit conversion from data type datetime to int is not allowed.
Just a day before I was working on some query and faced this error. As soon as I receive this, I realized that what I had done wrong and what I needed to fix. The suggestion demonstrated in the error message is to the point and accurate. Let us learn how to fix error 217 for Implicit conversion.
SQL SERVER – Pass One Stored Procedure’s Result as Another Stored Procedure’s Parameter
This is one of the most asked questions related to stored procedure in recent time and the answer is even simpler. Here is the question – How to Pass One Stored Procedure’s Result as Another Stored Procedure’s Parameter. Stored Procedures are very old concepts and every day I see more and more adoption to Stored Procedure over dynamic code. When we have almost all of our code in Stored Procedure it is very common requirement that we have need of one stored procedure’s result to be passed as another stored procedure’s parameter.
SQL SERVER – Group by Rows and Columns using XML PATH – Efficient Concating Trick
I hardly get hard time to come up with the title of the blog post. This was one of the blog post even though simple, I believe I have not come up with appropriate title: Group by Rows and Columns using XML PATH – Efficient Concating Trick. Anyway, here is the question I received.