I am working with a query which contains “CASE” statement within “WHERE” clause. But SQL Server 2008 is giving some errors while executing it. Can anyone please help me with the correct query? Here is the query:
You are mixing implicit joins with explicit joins. That is allowed, but you need to be aware of how to do that properly. The thing is, explicit joins (the ones that are implemented using the JOIN keyword) take precedence over implicit ones (the ‘comma’ joins, where the join condition is specified in the WHERE clause). Here’s an outline of … Read more
It turns out that I had attempted to restore from a backup incorrectly. Initially I created a new database and then attempted to restore the backup here. What I should have done, and what worked in the end, was to bring up the restore dialog and type the name of the new database in the … Read more
From the error I take, that the data file cannot be opened: I think, you have to add a filename behind the \Desktop. Desktop is an existing directory and cannot be opened as file … And – btw – it might be necessary to add -S Servername… UPDATE Found this here Whenever I get this message, it’s because of one … Read more
It’s declaring the string as nvarchar data type, rather than varchar You may have seen Transact-SQL code that passes strings around using an N prefix. This denotes that the subsequent string is in Unicode (the N actually stands for National language character set). Which means that you are passing an NCHAR, NVARCHAR or NTEXT value, as opposed to … Read more
You could try some sort of COALESCE trick, eg: SELECT COALESCE( CASE WHEN condition1 THEN calculation1 ELSE NULL END, CASE WHEN condition2 THEN calculation2 ELSE NULL END, etc… )
Sounds like you need to grant the execute permission to the user (or a group that they a part of) for the stored procedure in question. For example, you could grant access thus:
Instead of ‘2013-04-12’ whose meaning depends on the local culture, use ‘20130412’ which is recognized as the culture invariant format. If you want to compare with December 4th, you should write ‘20131204’. If you want to compare with April 12th, you should write ‘20130412’. The article Write International Transact-SQL Statements from SQL Server’s documentation explains how to … Read more
I had this problem with an ASP.NET MVC app I was working on. I realized I had recently changed my password, and I was able to fix it by logging out and logging back in again.
They are functionally equivalent, but INNER JOIN can be a bit clearer to read, especially if the query has other join types (i.e. LEFT or RIGHT or CROSS) included in it.