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DELETE failed because the following SET options have incorrect settings: 'ANSI_NULLS'

I have inherited a few scripts that are pumped through a c#.NET custom app to update a SQL2005 SP3 database. One of these scripts does a deletion on a user table called msw_timer_task, based on a ...
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Unexpected Table Scan with Parameterized LIKE

I'm experiencing an unexpected table scan on SQL Server 2005 against a heap table when parameterizing a LIKE statement... but when the same value as the variable is hard-coded, the expected Index Seek ...
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how to add attachment(text file) to database mail?

I have scenario Daily i run a sql job to apply a new updates to one table - this job will create one text file daily - text file contains all new updates I can send a mail to client that job is ...
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Help with tricky update statement

I've tried writting this update statement every possible way I can think of but I either wind up producing invalid results or run into a syntax barrier. I have two table variables: DECLARE ...
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What exactly does “No Join Predicate” mean in SQL Server?

MSDN "Missing Join Predicate Event Class" says it "indicates that a query is being executed that has no join predicate". But unfortunately it does not seem to be as easy as that. For example, very ...
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How to split the comma separated list in the stored procedure

I am working on small module in which we pass the column name as comma-separated string to a stored procedure. In the stored procedure, we want to separate the column names out.
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T-SQL and GPS co-ordinates

I'm looking to store GPS co-ordinates in an MS SQL Server DB for location matching of users with GPS-enabled mobile phones. I've read about STDistance on MSDN, but it only appears to exist in SQL ...
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Defrag a HEAP by creating clustered index and immediately dropping it

I'm writing a script which intends to defrag a HEAP based table by creating a dummy col with a clustered index and then immediately dropping it. (It's someone else's app and I don't want to make any ...
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Using sys.dm_os_performance_counters and DIFF to display logins per second

PROBLEM Running my script below i can see the number of logins as an accumulated number to my instance: SELECT cntr_value AS [LoginsPerSec] FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters WHERE ...
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EXISTS and sub-query cost

i've just wondered if there's a difference in cost(memory,cpu) of an EXISTS or NOT EXISTS in following queries. Does it make a difference if i select NULL, 1 or columns? 1) SELECT id FROM Parent p ...
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Selecting 'edge' records in a sequence of data

I have a table of items which run sequentially by date with both a start and end for each entry: ID | Start | End ---------------------------------------- 1 | 2012-08-20 00:00 | ...
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How can I strip non-numeric characters out of a string?

Users enter a search term in a box, and that value gets passed to a stored procedure and checked against a few different fields in the database. These fields are not always of the same data type. One ...
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Find last (max) value according to TimeStamp using update method

I have task to find values of integer according to last (max) of timestamp (datetime) value. Because it is so complicated query I am consindering this way to find last value something like this ...
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How to design database for tree view with an infinite depth

I am trying to combine C# and SQL2005 for an application which need to have tree view control. One of user requests is to that tree view can user friendly grow into infinite dept of child nodes. That ...
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What can cause an UPDATE statement to execute endless?

I have a stored-procedure which is executed at 7 o'clock in the morning that updates the database because new records were imported at night. Today it started but never endet. So i've tried to run ...
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Solving high page load time using SQL Profiler

I'm looking into a performance of a login page taking 10-13 seconds to load. I'm using a DEMO database to test the performance and tweak to see any improvement. I'm using SQL Profiler to capture what ...
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Why is query using Clustered Index when it shouldn't?

Let us presume I have a table named Category in a SQL Server 2005 database. Category has category_id (bigint, identity) as its primary key and name (nvarchar(50)). There is obviously a clustered ...
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Small Squares or Blocks after string in table field

My problem. I'm running SQL Server 2005 in a Development (Dev) and Production (Prod) environment. I created a view that extracts data from a Navision database to SQL using a pass-through query ...
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How can I store function names to be executed on a subset of rows?

I have a table, accounts, which contains the vast majority of the data I am concerned with. accountTypes contains different types of accounts (Business, Personal, etc.). I want to perform calculations ...
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Which problems arise, declaring the size of all varchar parameters as max in stored proc?

Looking at this question, it seems, that other sites too have the problem of increasing column sizes in the process of time. Increasing just the size of a column in a table is a rather simple task. ...