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  • Temp Table Recompiles

    - by Derek D.
    If you landed on this article, then you most likely know that temp tables can cause recompilation. This happens because temp tables are treated just like regular tables by the SQL Server Engine. When the tables (in which underlying queries rely on) change significantly, SQL Server detects this change (using auto update statistics) [...]

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  • Delete Job by Name

    - by Derek D.
    When scripting out jobs using ssms (sql server management studio) the default script for a drop statement is to drop the job according to it’s job_id. This is not beneficial however when pushing code to different environments. Job_id’s are specific to the windows environment in which they are created. To get around [...]

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  • using sp_addrolemember

    - by Derek Dieter
    To add a user or group to a role, you need to use sp_addrolemember. This procedure is easy to use as it only accepts two parameters, the role name, and the username (or group). Roles are utilized in order to provide a layer of abstraction from permissions from being applied directly to users. While [...]

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  • Find Duplicate Items in a Table

    - by Derek Dieter
    A very common scenario when querying tables is the need to find duplicate items within the same table. To do this is simple, it requires utilizing the GROUP BY clause and counting the number of recurrences. For example, lets take a customers table. Within the customers table, we want to find all [...]

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  • SQL Server Substr Equivalent

    - by Derek D.
    The oracle function equivalent to the SQL Server function of Substr is: Substring. All spelled out. This function is actually identical to Oracle’s function.DECLARE @BaseString varchar(max)SET @BaseString = 'My grandmothers pillows are blue'SELECT SUBSTRING ( @BaseString -- The base string to extract from ,4 -- Start Position ,5 -- Length of

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  • Find Duplicate Fields in a Table

    - by Derek Dieter
    A common scenario when querying tables is the need to find duplicate fields within the same table. To do this is simple, it requires utilizing the GROUP BY clause and counting the number of recurrences. For example, lets take a customers table. Within the customers table, we want to find all the [...]

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  • Clustered Index

    - by Derek Dieter
    The clustered index on a table can be defined as: the sort order for how the data for the table is actually stored. Being that the clustered index is the actual data itself, you cannot have two clustered indexes. You can however have many non clustered indexes. These non clustered indexes are [...]

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  • SQL Server Cast

    - by Derek Dieter
    The SQL Server cast function is the easiest data type conversion function to be used compared to the CONVERT function. It takes only one parameter followed by the AS clause to convert a specified value. A quick example is the following:SELECT UserID_String = CAST(UserID AS varchar(50)) FROM dbo.UserThis example will convert the integer to a

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  • SQL Server Add Primary Key

    - by Derek D.
    Adding a primary key can be done either after a table is created, or at the same a table is created. It is important to note, that by default a primary key is clustered. This may or may not be the preferred method of creation. For more information on clustered vs non [...]

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  • Dynamic Number Table

    - by Derek D.
    Using a numbers table is helpful for many things. Like finding gaps in a supposed sequence of primary keys, or generating date ranges or any numerical range. In some cases, you will be in a production system that does not already contain a numbers table and you will also be unable to add [...]

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  • SQL Server Begin Try

    - by Derek Dieter
    The try catch methodology of programming is a great innovation for SQL 2005+. The first question you should ask yourself before using Try/Catch should be “why?”. Why am I going to use Try/Catch? Personally, I have found a few uses, however I must say I do fall into the category of not [...]

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  • SQL Server Max SmallInt Value

    - by Derek Dieter
    The maximum value for a smallint in SQL Server is: -32768 through 32767 And the byte size is: 2 bytes other maximum values: BigInt: -9223372036854775808 through 9223372036854775807 (8 bytes) Int: -2147483648 through 2147483647 (4 bytes) TinyInt: 0 through 255 (1 byte) Related Posts:»SQL Server Max TinyInt Value»SQL Server Max Int Value»SQL

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  • Unable to ping ip address between two locations

    - by Derek
    I have two locations office and home. From home I am unable to access my mail server. and from the office I am unable to access my personal web server. now these two locations are about 100 yards away and share the same connection from the isp. Its payed for on the same account. Also they both have different static public ip addresses.

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  • SQL Server Max TinyInt Value

    - by Derek Dieter
    The maximum value for a tinyint in SQL Server is: 0 through 255 And the byte size is: 1 byte other maximum values: BigInt: -9223372036854775808 through 9223372036854775807 (8 bytes) Int: -2147483648 through 2147483647 (4 bytes) SmallInt: -32768 through 32767 (2 bytes) Related Posts:»SQL Server Max SmallInt Value»SQL Server Max Int

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  • Find Column in All Databases

    - by Derek Dieter
    Occasionally, there comes a requirement to search all databases on a particular server for either columns with a specific name, or columns relating to a specific subject. In the most recent case, I had to find all similar columns in all databases because the company plans to change the datatype of these columns. [...]

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  • SELECT TOP 1

    - by Derek Dieter
    There are many good uses of the SELECT TOP 1 method of querying. Essentially, the select top 1 method is used to find the min or max record for a particular value. There is some debate as to whether this is the ‘correct’ method of querying, however it should be known that this [...]

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  • Rownum in SQL Server

    - by Derek Dieter
    Prior to SQL Server 2005, there was no inherent function to generate a rownumber within a row. There is a workaround however for SQL 2000. If you are on SQL 2005+, then you will utilize the following function:-- SQL 2005+ SELECT RowNumber = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY c.CustomerID ASC) [...]

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  • String or binary data would be truncated.

    - by Derek Dieter
    This error message is relatively straight forward. The way it normally happens is when you are trying to insert data from a table that contains values that have larger data lengths than the table you are trying to insert into. An example of this would be trying to insert data from a permanent table, into [...]

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  • 12.04 in Virtualbox is keep losing my wireless connection

    - by Derek
    I've Windows 7 as the Host OS, Ubuntu 12.04 as the guest and a Netgear WG111v2 as the USB Wireless device. Its connected to an open Wi-Fi network at work to bypass my works crazy strict filtering, When on the domain. I currently have network eth0 turned off in the virtualbox settings so the only network source would be through the

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  • Get Session ID

    - by Derek Dieter
    To get the session ID, simply use the intrinsic variable @@SPID:SELECT @@SPIDThe acronym for SPID means Server Process ID. It is synonymous with session. Related Posts:»SQL Server Kill»Using sp_who2»Blocking Processes (lead blocker)»A Better sp_who2 using DMVs (sp_who3)»Troubleshooting SQL Server Slowness»SQL Server 2008

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  • SQL Date Comparison

    - by Derek Dieter
    When comparing the datetime datatype in SQL Server, it is important to maintain consistency in order to gaurd against SQL interpreting a date differently than you intend. In at least one occasion I have seen someone specify a short format for a date, like (1/4/08) only to find that SQL interpreted the month as [...]

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  • Gracefully Handling Deadlocks

    - by Derek Dieter
    In some situations, deadlocks may need to be dealt with not by changing the source of the deadlock, but by changing handling the deadlock gracefully. An example of this may be an external subscription that runs on a schedule deadlocking with another process. If the subscription deadlocks then it would be ok to [...]

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