There are many formats supported by SQL Server – see the MSDN Books Online on CAST and CONVERT. Most of those formats are dependent on what settings you have – therefore, these settings might work some times – and sometimes not. The way to solve this is to use the (slightly adapted) ISO-8601 date format … Read more
If you found the exact error “The wait operation timed out” then it is likely you have a database call that took longer than expected. This could be due to any number of things: Transient network problem High SQL server load Problem with SAN, RAID, or storage device Deadlock or other form of multiprocess contention … Read more
You use a self join when a table references data in itself. E.g., an Employee table may have a SupervisorID column that points to the employee that is the boss of the current employee. To query the data and get information for both people in one row, you could self join like this:
If you found the exact error “The wait operation timed out” then it is likely you have a database call that took longer than expected. This could be due to any number of things: Transient network problem High SQL server load Problem with SAN, RAID, or storage device Deadlock or other form of multiprocess contention … Read more
You can do the following (I guessed on table fields,etc) Based on your request for multiple halls you could do it this way. You just join on your Hall table multiple times for each room pref id:
Try using different quotes for “y” as the identifier quote character is the backtick (“`”). Otherwise MySQL “thinks” that you point to a column named “y”. See also MySQL 5 Documentation
Try using different quotes for “y” as the identifier quote character is the backtick (“`”). Otherwise MySQL “thinks” that you point to a column named “y”. See also MySQL 5 Documentation
In SQL Server 2008 you can insert multiple rows using a single SQL INSERT statement. For reference to this have a look at MOC Course 2778A – Writing SQL Queries in SQL Server 2008. For example:
An index is used to speed up searching in the database. MySQL have some good documentation on the subject (which is relevant for other SQL servers as well): http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-indexes.html An index can be used to efficiently find all rows matching some column in your query and then walk through only that subset of the table to … Read more
The SQL WITH clause was introduced by Oracle in the Oracle 9i release 2 database. The SQL WITH clause allows you to give a sub-query block a name (a process also called sub-query refactoring), which can be referenced in several places within the main SQL query. The name assigned to the sub-query is treated as … Read more