There are many ways you can take back of table. BCP (BULK COPY PROGRAM) Generate Table Script with data Make a copy of table using SELECT INTO, example here SAVE Table Data Directly in a Flat file Export Data using SSIS to any destination
In your query, 2010-4-01 is treated as a mathematical expression, so in essence it read (2010 minus 4 minus 1 is 2005 Converting it to a proper datetime, and using single quotes will fix this issue.) Technically, the parser might allow you to get away with it will do the conversion for you, but in my opinion it is … Read more
Here’s a UDF that will do the trick… You will still have to use it to update your data though.
Such unexpected problems can appear when you copy the code from a web page or email and the text contains unprintable characters like individual CR or LF and non-breaking spaces.
Dynamic SQL PIVOT: Results:
Even though in Europe and everywhere in the world it makes perfect sense to use the month as the second of three items in the date. In the US and in this case, apparently, SQL’s date time is MM.DD.YYYY, so you’re going for the 15th month and 18th month Therefore you should use or
When you want to replace a possibly null column with something else, use IsNull. This will put a 0 in myColumn if it is null in the first place.
This is a common issue when attempting to ‘bubble’ up data from a chain of stored procedures. A restriction in SQL Server is you can only have one INSERT-EXEC active at a time. I recommend looking at How to Share Data Between Stored Procedures which is a very thorough article on patterns to work around … Read more
If you can’t just limit the query itself with a where clause, you can use the fact that the count aggregate only counts the non-null values: You can also use the sum aggregate in a similar way:
The error is self-explanatory – you cannot issue a CREATE PROCEDURE statement unless it’s the only statement in the batch. In SSMS the GO keyword splits the statement into separate batches, so you need to add one after the statement before the CREATE PROCEDURE: