I have a SQL Server database and I want to know what columns and types it has. I’d prefer to do this through a query rather than using a GUI like Enterprise Manager. Is there a way to do this?
SQL Server’s TIMESTAMP datatype has nothing to do with a date and time! It’s just a hexadecimal representation of a consecutive 8 byte integer – it’s only good for making sure a row hasn’t change since it’s been read. You can read off the hexadecimal integer or if you want a BIGINT. As an example: The result is In newer … Read more
Escape the square brackets: Then the square brackets will be treated as a string literals not as wild cards.
There are many tutorial articles about xml parsing with TSQL. For example, http://www.sqlserver.info/syntax/parse-xml-with-sql-server/
You will need to post the table definitions for the source and destination tables for us to figure out where the issue is but the bottom line is that one of your columns in the source table is bigger than your destination columns. It could be that you are changing formats in a way you were … Read more
I suspect that you have two tables with the same name. One is owned by the schema ‘dbo’ (dbo.PerfDiag), and the other is owned by the default schema of the account used to connect to SQL Server (something like userid.PerfDiag). When you have an unqualified reference to a schema object (such as a table) — one … Read more
Limiting the size of the varchar chops of the hour portion that you don’t want.
There is no combination of LIKE & IN in SQL, much less in TSQL (SQL Server) or PLSQL (Oracle). Part of the reason for that is because Full Text Search (FTS) is the recommended alternative. Both Oracle and SQL Server FTS implementations support the CONTAINS keyword, but the syntax is still slightly different: Oracle: SQL … Read more
You can obtain this information and much, much more by querying the Information Schema views. This sample query: Can be made over all these DB objects: CHECK_CONSTRAINTS COLUMN_DOMAIN_USAGE COLUMN_PRIVILEGES COLUMNS CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE CONSTRAINT_TABLE_USAGE DOMAIN_CONSTRAINTS DOMAINS KEY_COLUMN_USAGE PARAMETERS REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS ROUTINES ROUTINE_COLUMNS SCHEMATA TABLE_CONSTRAINTS TABLE_PRIVILEGES TABLES VIEW_COLUMN_USAGE VIEW_TABLE_USAGE VIEWS
I am seeing this in several situations and it is intermittent in our web based application connecting to SQL 2008 R2 serve back end. Users are coming across a point 2 point connection and seeing this on and off. Thought it was bandwidth issues until I started seeing it on terminal servers that are on … Read more