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Have you ever need to transpose a whole table? Mostly you need not, neither did I. We might need some kind of cross-tab resultsets mainly while doing Reporting and reporting tools are well versed for handling this requirements and that should be used. B...
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If SQL agent finds a job running at schedule job start time, agent skips the execution of job until the next scheduled execution time. This can lead to some missing rows. I have tried to demonstrate the same thing below. Step-1 Create a Job with runs e...
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Warning:- Settings mentioned below are listed by keeping developer workstation in mind. Even if some setting might applicable for live production server, please refrain using the same script or recommendation from this post against SQL production/UAT/QA...
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Many times this question comes to me in past and today I got a call from my friend working in previous organization for same thing. Same question is asked in MSDN forum also. So I decided to document this.
We can clear the recent items from the cache by...
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Descending Indexes and Fragmentation...
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As we know that, No order guaranteed if order by is notf explcitly specified. Below is one more example of this.
Below is the code to pupolate dummy table.
If OBJECT_ID('dbo.testTable') is not null
drop table dbo.testTable
Go
Create table dbo.testTable
( c1 int not null,
c2 int not null,
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Note:- Please refer to post mentioned here to see why there are less number of log records. Actully this is not minimal logging but its less number of log records/
As per BOL ( here and here), minimal logging is only possible in SIMPLE and BULK-LOGGED recovery mode using bulk operations and FULL ......
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Output clause has been added to SQL 2005 which can mainly used to grab the identity values. This has been really helpful addition to SQL 2005. You can get more information regarding output clause here.
I have faced couple of incidents in last six months involving use of output clause and trigger wh......
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While designing the reports, we need to set default date values in Date data type parameter. This question also appears many times in forums. So, I decided to create a comprehensive list of all such expressions.
Now, In expression editor we can use native VB functions for different date calculatio......
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As we know, we can easily export SSRS reports to excel file. But, sometimes there is a user requirement to automatically refresh the data in the excel file when user opens the file again. Robert Bruckner has written this excellent post for doing this using inserting a image file into the World or E......
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