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Razvan

You should know that using CONVERT will prevent SQL Server to use any indexes. If the table is large and you want to use an index on the supp_startdt, you...

For everything you want to know about error handling in T-SQL, read the following excellent article, by Erland Sommarskog:

http://www.algonet.se/~sommar/error-handling-II.html

Razvan

The view+function trick for using RAND() is very interesting, but not so efficient. On my system, it takes 330ms to select a random row from a table with about 8300 rows...

Dinesh wrote:

As per the output, there are 20086 logical reads and it has taken 200 ms for the first method. But in second method there are only 19...

> Are there circumstances where an SQL statement "partially succeeds"? 

> It was my understanding that transactions either succeed completely

> (in a single-table update) or they don't.  Admittedly I...

The explanation for the correct answer is a little bit incorrect. They say:

"[...] it will still run a partial update of the table. It will not change the PaidFg column...

Great article, Chris!

I didn't know about SQL Server Agent tokens until now. I plan to use them for an ErrorLog in SQL Server, but I saw a problem that affects...

There is a slight chance that the script which searches for EXEC-s will not function correctly: if the procedure is larger than 4000 characters and the word "EXEC" starts in...

Wrong "correct answer", but right Explanation...

QOD is getting worse every day. Yesterday it was a minor mistake about an underline, today is a huge difference between DESCending and ASCending.

Needless to...

How about this script:

 

declare @indexes table (

id int,

TableName sysname,

indid smallint,

IndexName sysname,

colid smallint null,

ColumnName sysname null,

keyno smallint null,

AutoStats bit null

)



declare @sysindexkeys table (

id int,

indid smallint,

colid smallint,

keyno...

We should also grant to db_executor the EXECUTE permission for scalar functions.

It is interesting to note that:

- Inline Table-valued Functions have SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE permissions

- Multi-statement Table-valued...

1. How about the following condition:

ISABOUT("drive safe" WEIGHT (.8), "drive" NEAR "safe" WEIGHT (.7),

"drive*" NEAR "safe*" WEIGHT (.6), FORMSOF(INFLECTIONAL,"drive","safe") .5)

Would it be better ?

2. What is the idea with...

Very nice article. We should all know these rules, but more importantly the database vendors should keep them in mind whenever they build something.

Here is a paper that discusses in...

The downside of using some place like context_info is that it is unique (per session). Are we sure that our trigger is the only one that uses it ? Are...