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geometry Line Endpoints: Preserve the Described Direction

April 15, 2009
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Datatype, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

geometry line endpoints identify the first and last described points. Reversing the same path exchanges them, while a closed line starts and ends together.

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SQL SERVER - Check if Current Login is Part of Server Role Member

SQL SERVER – Check if Current Login is Part of Server Role Member

April 14, 2009
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Login, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

Clients sometimes forget to give me admin rights. IS_SRVROLEMEMBER(‘sysadmin’) checks if the current login is a Server Role Member: 1 means yes, 0 means no.

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Replacing Profiler Traces With Extended Events

April 10, 2009
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Extended Events, SQL Monitoring, SQL Profiler, SQL Server, SQL Trace

Replacing Profiler traces with Extended Events starts with the question, a focused event session, and a bounded target that avoids needless load.

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Standard DBA Reports You Can Write in T-SQL

April 10, 2009
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Monitoring, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent

Standard DBA reports can use T-SQL to show backup age, database sizes, job failures, login changes, and errors in one weekly review.

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SQL SERVER - Fix Error 9803. Invalid data for type "numeric" - Data Type Mapping

SQL SERVER – Fix Error 9803. Invalid data for type “numeric” – Data Type Mapping

April 9, 2009
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Oracle, SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Security

My present article talks about an error that you will encounter when connecting to Oracle database using OPENQUERY. Let us learn about how to fix error 9803.

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Reading the SQL Server Support Lifecycle

April 8, 2009
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, Database, SQL Server, SQL Server Installation

Read the SQL Server support lifecycle for your exact release, distinguish mainstream and extended support, and plan before coverage ends.

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LEFT Boundaries: Zero, Oversized Length and Missing Text

April 7, 2009
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Server, SQL String

LEFT boundaries keep empty prefixes separate from missing values. Eight short Unicode cases expose zero, oversized and missing lengths. A separate invalid request shows why negative lengths need validation.

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