Hello all. I understand that I can change a sql table using the follow sp: EXEC sp_rename 'customers', 'custs' How would I go about appending this so that the new table has today's date as a suffix? I've attempt variations on the below theme with little success!! EXEC sp_rename 'customers', 'customers +(CONVERT(VARCHAR(8),GETDATE()...
I'm trying to drop a constraint on a db table, something like: ALTER TABLE MyTable drop CONSTRAINT FK_MyTable_AnotherTable But the execution just runs and runs. If I stop it I see: Msg 3727, Level 16, State 0, Line 2 Could not drop constraint. See previous errors. Web search throws up various pages but note that the constraint is p...
Is it possible to deceive SQL Server to return a different date on GetDate() without actually changing the machine date? This would be great, since we have a database with old data and I'm trying to test some queries that use getdate(). I can change my machine date but that brings some other problems with other applications... Any tips? ...
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetDocumentsAdvancedSearch] @SDI CHAR(10) = NULL ,@Client CHAR(4) = NULL ,@AccountNumber VARCHAR(20) = NULL ,@Address VARCHAR(300) = NULL ,@StartDate DATETIME = NULL ,@EndDate DATETIME = NULL ,@ReferenceID CHAR(14) = NULL AS BEGIN ...
I'm having problems with dynamic sorting using ROW Number in SQL Server. I have it working but it's throwing errors on non numeric fields. What do I need to change to get sorts with Alpha Working??? ID Description 5 Test 6 Desert 3 A evil Ive got a Sql Prodcedure CREATE PROCEDURE [CRUDS].[MyTable_Search] -- Add t...
I am planning on deploying a database to SQL Azure, so I cannot use the SQL CLR. However, I have a need to create an aggregate function -- in my case, I need to STUnion a bunch of Geography objects together. (Azure is expected to support Spatial by June.) Is there another way to accomplish this, without making use of the CLR, in a query...
I receive a daily XML file that contains thousands of records, each being a business transaction that I need to store in an internal database for use in reporting and billing. I was under the impression that each day's file contained only unique records, but have discovered that my definition of unique is not exactly the same as the prov...
I'm curious. Is there any way to prevent SQL query execution plans from being cached for an entire connection's duration? Can I run a command that basically says, "use OPTION(RECOMPILE) for all subsequent commands until I tell you to stop doing so?" I'm acutely aware of all the performance trade-offs here, and I know this is not a ste...
A few weeks ago, I asked a question about how to generate hierarchical XML from a table, that has a parentID column. It all works fine. The point is, according to the hierarchy, I also want to query a table. I'll give you an example: Thats the table with the codes: ID CODE NAME ...
DBConvert is one such tool I know. Any open source or any other product? ...
Hi, I have a SSIS that should be execute since the server and invoke since a client. The SSIS copies the data from the server to the client, but the client's name can change, so how can I change the server name destination with the name of the client that invokes the SSIS? Thanks!!! ...
I'm getting an Automation error upon running VBA code in Excel 2007. I'm attempting to connect to a remote SQL Server DB and load data to from Excel to SQL Server. The error I get is, "Run-time error '-2147217843(80040e4d)': Automation error". I checked out the MSDN site and it suggested that this may be due to a bug associated with ...
Hi, I have a field 'Description' which can have product descriptions with any unicode characters. If I search for a description which contains an international character, with a LIKE condition (word searched with does not have the international character) I get the following results: Ex: GEWÜRZTRAMINER is one of the descriptions. When ...
I am quite confused about the difference between an index on table and index on view (Indexed View). Please clarify it. ...
I am adding data to my database, but would like to retrieve the UnitID that is Auto generated. using (SqlConnection connect = new SqlConnection(connections)) { SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("ContactInfo_Add", connect); command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("name", name)); command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("address", a...
In SQL Profiler you can see that very simple updates to a table by primary key take about 10-30ms each. On about every 10th update the write column shows 1, on all other updates it shows 0. This must mean that about every 10th update statement still requires disk IO. I wonder why that is. Would it not be more efficient queue up all IO un...
What is the diffrence between composite index and covering index in Sql Server ? ...
I'm working on an ASP.Net project to display information on a website from a database. I want to select the top 10 items from a news table but skip the first Item and I'm having some problem with it. <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ProviderName="System.Data.SqlClient" Connecti...
SQL Server Beginner question: I'm trying to introduce a computed column in SQL Server (2008). In the table designer of SQL Server Management Studio I can do this, but the designer only offers me one single edit cell to define the expression for this column. Since my computed column will be rather complicated (depending on several databa...
Well, now that I've finally got my stupid ODBC stuff configured, I took a schema.rb file that I dumped from a Postgres database and did a db:schema:load on it in a Rails project configured for SQL Server. Well, it sets up all the schema in the SQL Server database except for a minor detail: No foreign keys are created. The rake command...