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Posts tagged sql-server
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Suppose I have an Azure Synapse Serverless SQL database. I can run the following to get the sid of added groups: select name, type_desc, authentication_type_desc, sid from sys.database_principal...
I have a parent-child relation in my table, with possibly circular cases. Is it possible to break the infinite recursion in CTE checking values of all previous rows? I would need something like thi...
I had a curiosity about how much the experienced users wait for their questions to be answered on Stack Overflow and had written a query for it: SELECT YEAR(q.CreationDate) * 100 + MONTH(q.Creatio...
I have to migrate a bunch of text from an old application into a new one. Some of these texts contain HTML tags and entities (HTML editor was used) and now they do not want to support this in the n...
One of the legacy applications my team has to maintain has almost always this pattern for dealing with data modification: try { // get the connection // begin transaction // optional...
Our team is currently transferring all functionality (+ some changes) from small and very old project A (almost code freeze) to project B (actively developed). As part of the data migration, there ...
The context A reports related process is directly reading the production operational database once about two hours. This involves reading all the data from some 70 tables which takes a couple minu...
Despite the fact that I have programmed against SQL Server for quite a while I did not pay much attention to the tempdb database. This is especially true if application logic is mostly written usin...
I have a query that returns the owner of jobs on an SQL instance, select s.name as JobName , s.owner_sid , ISNULL(L.name,'AccessViaGroup') as LoginName --Trying to figure out how to turn that ...
My project has the following set up for the production and preproduction ("clone") environment. Production is not accessible at all for the development team, only the preproduction database. Pr...
I found a confusing construction in several stored procs in an MS SQL 2008 R2 database: DATEADD(dd, 0, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, some_date)) As I understand it, these are the relevant function signatures: D...
I just completed my first install of SQL as a server-based, Enterprise Edition. I wanted to check it out using SSMS on PC using my Admin Access. But could not connect. For security reasons my adm...
