Creating a stored procedure from a collection of SQL jobs
Hi All,So I've been set a challenge by my team leader to try and improve the efficiency of some of our SQL jobs on a test system (obviously eventually to live but test for now).Basically we have a...
View ArticleHow to list total credit hours in sql
Hello,I am trying to build a report which includes student no, student name,course code, yr code, term code, hrs_earned and total credit hours. So I want total credit hours every year wise of total...
View ArticleSSRS Report Selection Menu
I am new to SSRS and like what I have seen. The thing I can't stand is the GUI for users to select report from. It is basic HTML ugliness. I am sure this is to allow it to be incorporated elsewhere....
View ArticleHyper-V Replica with SQL AlwaysON - Specific Usage Case
Hi all,So my google-fu has come up blank on this one so I thought I'd ask here. We have a production SQL 2012 Enterprise VM running AlwaysON on a single Hyper-V host. It operates with synchronous...
View ArticleClarification on SQL Express 2014 DB limit.
Asking for clarification. SQL Express 2014 has a 10GB DB limit.Does this apply to DB only or logs as well?I understand it as the 10GB limit is for the DB only, so in this instance, the DB is fine for...
View ArticleMissing field in SQL Server transactions, and now missing records..
Multi- user VB.Net application.. calculates and updates information, then written to or updated to MS SQL Server 2008.It happens only now and then.. on different workstations, with different users.. to...
View ArticleSQL Upgrade Licensing (2012 to 2016)
Hello - Is there any special licensing for upgrading to SQL Server 2016 from 2012 Standard Edition? Or do I have to nut up all over again?Also: How bad is the upgrade installation process?Thanks!
View Articlecreating stored procedure from select statement ?
I have this sql statement which will search all the database for a column...
View ArticleBest Laptop for Developer & SQL processing for 2017
Hi,May I get your ideas and suggestions based on your experiences for the best high-performance laptop for developer specially for SQL databases queries? Our requirement is as follows,512Gb SSD16Gb...
View ArticleSQL 2016 SP1 CU3 fails to install
Hi,I'm running a SQL Server 2016 SP1 with CU1 on it on a windows server 2012 r2 platform. My issue is that I tried to update to CU3 recently and I recieved the error: Error installing SQL Server Common...
View ArticleI want to make column alias on dynamic column name in sql server ......
I have variable @columns = ', p.[111], p.[222], p.[333], p.[444]' (111, 222, 333, 444) are column names.....I want to use that variable in my sql query , for example .... DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(MAX);SET...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 Reporting Serivce
Here is the scenario. SBS 2011 with Exchange and SQL Server 2014. I installed 2 new 2TB hard drives and created a new Raid 1 volume. The D: Drive was the original shared drive hosting the User and...
View ArticleCan Someone Explain this query ?
We have a linked server and its fetching employee records to our databaseThere is a stored procedure and this is the select statement inside that stored procedureSQLselect@x='select * from...
View ArticleSQL Broskerage Service
We have an applications that about 15 people use and it has a brokerage service to do real time screen refreshes when ever any data in a specific tablechanges.For the most part this appears to work but...
View ArticleSSIS Script running
Hi,I have created a few scripts to import data coming from another system that we do not have direct access to. What I mean is that our users run queries and then output that query to CSV. I created a...
View ArticleSSRS 2008 R2 Web Service internal error
I messed up and let the Self-Signed Certificate on one of our SSRS servers expire for a couple of months, making our Report Server Web Service URL inoperable. We are running SQL Server 2008 R2 Express...
View ArticleIs it possible to find image size and details in blob datatype sql ?
we have an employee table and there is a column for employee photo .Is it possible to find the size of the pic they uploaded in the database through query?We are expecting image size of : 608x120 (...
View ArticleWhat is "DatabaseBackup - USER_DATABASES - LOG" and what does it do?
Hello All,We've had a request to extend a drive because of growing logs. I've advised that the database team should fix the growing log issue (it's been growing for 3 weeks to fill the drive) otherwise...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 - Extended Events - Issue displaying graphical data for XML file
I have been trying to troubleshoot some deadlocks on one of our SQL servers.I have been trying to get my head around the Extended Events feature, whilst trying to diagnose the issue regarding the...
View ArticleNetwork pressure enabling SCCM reporting at working hours
Good morning all.I want to enable SCCM reporing but I got the message shown below. I want to be sure that the pressure on the network won't be too many and that it is relatively safe to enable...
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