I ran into this error recently while trying to clone a production database:
Msg 2601, Level 14, State 1, LineNumber
Cannot insert duplicate...
2018-11-02 (first published: 2018-10-24)
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Are you a prefixer? And by that I mean a developer – or DBA – who uses prefixes on object names? [DISCLAIMER:...
2018-09-24
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We ran into a funny problem not long ago, revolving around a stored procedure that was building up a dynamic...
2018-09-24 (first published: 2018-09-13)
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“Moneyball” has been a thing for a while now. It’s shorthand for the application of quantitative data analysis to the...
2018-09-05 (first published: 2018-08-17)
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Imagine you are driving somewhere – to work, to the mall, wherever – and you encounter a massive traffic jam. Wall-to-wall, bumper-to-bumper,...
2018-08-24 (first published: 2018-08-12)
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Foreign key constraints put the “relation” into relational databases. They enforce integrity by requiring that a key value referencing another...
2018-03-05
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It’s that time of year again: time to make resolutions, then try to stick to them. Sure, we could start...
2018-01-09
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The obesity epidemic is much in the news these days. The list of health issues related to being overweight is...
2017-12-27 (first published: 2017-12-13)
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I remember being thoroughly baffled in grade school by word problems. How in the world was I supposed to translate...
2017-12-18
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Security is very much on our minds these days. Scarcely a day goes by without hearing of a yet another...
2017-12-06 (first published: 2017-11-27)
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This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
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Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
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What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers