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MSSQL-CLI: An Interactive Command Line SQL Server Query Tool

Beaulin Twinkle Published Jul 15, 2018 Updated Jul 15, 2018 0 Comments

Mssql-cli is an open source cross platform interactive command line query tool for SQL Server. It can be used as an enhanced alternative to sqlcmd.

Escape Special Characters Using STRING_ESCAPE

Beaulin Twinkle Published May 30, 2018 Updated May 30, 2018 0 Comments

Simple and clean method to escape special characters using STRING_ESCAPE system function. STRING_ESCAPE function was introduced in SQL 2016. Here we will see how to use it to escape dome of the special characters.

How To Get Day Of Week In SQL Server?

Dahlia Sam Published Apr 18, 2018 Updated Apr 18, 2018 0 Comments

Sometimes we need to get the day of week in name or number. SQL Server has a couple of inbuilt functions to get the day of week from the given date. To get the name of the day of week,…

Compatibility Level Field Is Disabled In SQL Server

Beaulin Twinkle Published Apr 13, 2018 Updated Apr 17, 2018 0 Comments

Unable to change SQL Server database compatibility level from management studio. Because the compatibility level field in the database properties window is disabled and grayed out.

Upgrade SQL Server And Database To Higher Version

Beaulin Twinkle Published Apr 12, 2018 Updated Apr 13, 2018 0 Comments

Upgrading SQL Server to it latest version. Here you will have the steps and tips to upgrade SQL Server and the existing database from a older version to a higher version, say 2017.

How To Copy Tables From one Database To Another In SQL Server?

Beaulin Twinkle Published Feb 4, 2018 Updated Feb 4, 2018 0 Comments

How to copy tables from one database to another database In SQL Server? Here is a quick tip to copy a table along with it’s table structure from one SQL Server database to another database on the same server.

How To Pass Array Or List To Stored Procedure

Beaulin Twinkle Published Jan 31, 2018 Updated Jan 31, 2018 0 Comments

How To Pass Array Or List To Stored Procedure in SQL Server? Using table-valued parameter to pass data-table to a stored procedure in SQL server from C# application.

Rollback Transaction On Error In SQL Server Stored Procedure

Beaulin Twinkle Published Jan 20, 2018 Updated Jan 24, 2018 0 Comments

How to rollback transaction on error in SQL Server stored procedure? Example for including transaction in TRY – CATCH block to rollback a transaction on any error occurred in the stored procedure.

How To Return Error Message In Stored Procedure

Beaulin Twinkle Published Jan 19, 2018 Updated Jan 20, 2018 0 Comments

How will you return error message in SQL Server stored procedure? Capturing the exception occurred in a stored procedure and returning the error message to the calling application is important in SQL Server programming. Here is the method to return the error message from a stored procedure.

Unique Constraint That Allow Multiple Nulls In SQL Server

Beaulin Twinkle Published Jan 12, 2018 Updated Jan 12, 2018 0 Comments

SQL Server unique constraint that allow multiple nulls

How to create an unique constraint that allow multiple nulls? Using filtered index you can create unique constraint with multiple nulls. Using this you can store any number for NULL in a unique constraint column

List All Foreign Keys Referencing A Table In SQL Server

Beaulin Twinkle Published Jan 5, 2018 Updated Jan 5, 2018 0 Comments

Quick methods to list all foreign keys referencing a table in SQL Server using execution of simple TSQL scripts and SSMS GUI. Ways to identify all the tables referencing a table with foreign key constraint

Auto Generate INSERT Statements for a Table in SQL Server

Beaulin Twinkle Published Dec 27, 2017 Updated Dec 27, 2017 0 Comments

Auto Generate Insert Script in SQL Server 05

Easy way to auto generate INSERT statements for a table in SQL Server using SSMS. Generate insert statements from sql server tables on the fly.

Inserting Line Break or Carriage Return or Tab To String In SQL Server

Beaulin Twinkle Published Dec 21, 2017 Updated Dec 21, 2017 0 Comments

Adding or inserting Inserting Line Break or Carriage Return or Tab to a string in SQL Server. Quick examples for adding special characters like Line Break, Carriage Return and Tab to strings.

Pagination of Results in SQL Server In Efficient Way

Beaulin Twinkle Published Dec 15, 2017 Updated Dec 15, 2017 0 Comments

How to do pagination of results in SQL Server In and efficient way? Best way to paginate results in SQL Server to improve performance of the application.

How to get Date from DateTime data type in SQL Server?

Beaulin Twinkle Published Dec 11, 2017 Updated Dec 11, 2017 0 Comments

How to get date part alone from DateTime and DateTime2 data types in SQL Server? Here are few of the techniques to get date from DateTime column.

SQL Server Development And Management Tools

Beaulin Twinkle Published Nov 29, 2017 Updated Dec 7, 2017 0 Comments

Top SQL Server Development And Management Tools. List of few popular tools which can be used for MS SQL Server development and management.

Disabling TLS 1.0 And SSL 3.0 Affects SQL Server 2014/2012

Beaulin Twinkle Published Nov 25, 2017 Updated Nov 25, 2017 0 Comments

Solution for SQL Server 2014/2012 won’t start on disabling SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 protocols. Fix for disabling TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 causes SQL Server issues.