There are no good ways to do that. It is a limitation of stored procedures. Your options are: Switch the procedure to a User Defined Function. All over world, today, people are making stored procedures that should be functions. It’s an education issue. You situation is a good example why. If your procedure were instead … Read more
In the Object Explorer frame of SQL Server Management Studio, expand the “Management” folder. Open the Database Mail configuration wizard. Click Next-> Choose the radio button for “View of change system parameters” and click Next. Now change the Maximum File Size (Bytes) property and click Next, then click Finish to save your changes. See Database … Read more
Try: select id, StartDate, CASE WHEN StartDate IS NULL THEN ‘Awaiting’ ELSE ‘Approved’ END AS StartDateStatus FROM myTable You code would have been doing a When StartDate = NULL, I think. NULL is never equal to NULL (as NULL is the absence of a value). NULL is also never not equal to NULL. The syntax … Read more
Use a comma to separate CTEs ;WITH SomeClause1 AS ( SELECT …. ) , SomeClause2 AS ( SELECT …. )
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This can happen because a select takes a lock out on two different indexes, meanwhile an update takes a lock out on the same indexes in the opposite order. The select needs two indexes because the first index doesn’t cover all of the columns it needs to access; the update needs two indexes because if … Read more
On SQL Server 2008, you would have a new DATE data type, which you could use to achieve this: SELECT (list of fields) FROM dbo.YourTable WHERE dateValue BETWEEN CAST(GETDATE() AS DATE) AND DATEADD(DAY, 1, CAST(GETDATE() AS DATE)) The CAST(GETDATE() AS DATE) casts the current date and time to a date-only value, e.g. return ‘2010-04-06’ for … Read more
Is the user an SA, if so it will not work, according to the documentation SA users are always defaulted to the dbo schema. The value of DEFAULT_SCHEMA is ignored if the user is a member of the sysadmin fixed server role. All members of the sysadmin fixed server role have a default schema of … Read more
Go to Project Settings click on the Database Settings button Under the Operational tab 3.1 uncheck Auto create statictics and 3.2 Uncheck Auto update statistics checkbox. This will reduce your numbers of operations by about 90% and the analysis should finish instantly.