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How to create table set from several XSD in SQL Server 2012 or with VS 2012

Is there any solution in T-SQL or in C# how to create XML schema collection in T-SQL or C#? Problem is I cannot use: USE Database_test GO CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION Collection_from_XSD AS N' ...
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Can I use Try_Cast to give me a query result column with different datatypes?

I have a column that is varchar(max). It contains mostly valid XML. But sometimes it has invalid xml (that I still need). I am trying to make a view for this table that allows the value to display ...
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DB comparer field by field for all tables

I have a liveDB and I have a development DB. Now when I make a change to development DB, I want to find out the changes later when I am deploying my application on server. For eg. I may have added ...
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Conditional WHERE Clause in a Table Valued Function

I have a table valued function CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[DateRange] ( @StartDate date, @EndDate date, @Location varchar(25), @Device varchar(25) ) ...
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How to flatten results of a table with two related “many” tables?

I've reorganized some tables in my database to be more flexible but I'm not really sure how to write the SQL to extract meaningful data from them. I have the following tables (somewhat abbreviated ...
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Backup stored procedure for full, differential and log backup

I wrote a simple stored procedure for backing up FULL, Differential and LOG backup. This is my stored procedure: Alter PROCEDURE BackupDB ( @BaseLocation varchar(1024), @BackupType ...
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Unique Identifier with Extra Characters Still Matching in Select

We are using SQL Server 2012 with a unique identifier and we've noticed that when doing selects with additional characters added onto the end (so not 36 chars) it still returns a match to a UUID. For ...
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Is there a sortable ('order by') alternative to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

I'm in the process of looking for a way to find a sortable alternative to a column that is populated with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and I'm stumped at the moment. I have a web based form with multiple ...
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LIKE character length limitation

The background to this question can be found here. The following part of my stored procedure does not work. Is there a character length limitation for the LIKE clause? t1.ProductList sometimes can be ...
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Parameter triggers different execution plan, but why?

I have a table CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Numbers] ( [Date] [date] NULL, [Time] [time](3) NULL, [Value] [char](10) NULL ) and the table has > 10 Billion rows, therefore it ...
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Forcing an index spool

I know its something that should be avoided for performance reasons, but am trying to show a condition where it appears as a demo on how to make sure it does not appear. However, I end up with a ...
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SQL Server Full-Text Indexer with stoplists/stopwords

As I'm working on a graduate project (Textmining with SQL Server 2012 Semantic Search) I run into a situation where I need to post a question on this website, hoping someone can help me. This ...
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Restrict update on certain columns. Only allow stored procedure to update those columns

I have sensitive price columns that I would like to have updated only through a stored procedure. I would like all code or manual attempts to alter values in these price columns to fail if it is not ...
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SQL Server 2012 is putting [brackets] around Table and Column Names

Is there anyway to turn that off? I'm unable to find anything in options, and they're really a distraction.