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| SQL Server 2017 - Development |
| Create DB List of latest Cumulative Updates - Hi. How can i webcrawl the internet to get the latest CU details and store them in a database. Instead of me tediously manually doing this, i want to automate it, is this possible? I can use either .net, jquery or can it be done in |
| Stored procedure that runs quickly in SSMS hangs up in SSRS - I'm attaching a WORD document that lists the T-SQL code in the stored procedure that runs in SSMS, but gets "stuck" in SSRS. I don't see the problem. Most of the stored procedures I write for my reports are similarly written with 1 or more #temp tables and I don't have problems with them. Any […] |
| How do you convert a timestamp into a date - Hi all Can anyone help me turn a timestamp that looks like this: "1994-10-07 00:00:00.0000000" into "10-07-1994", then into 10-94? I tried cast(DOB as date) and it came back as 1994-10-07. Any assistance would be appreciated. |
| SQL Server 2016 - Administration |
| Replication sending same change over and again when doing a batch update - Good morning, I recently set up replication on my sql server - Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (SP2) (KB4052908) - 13.0.5026.0 (X64) Mar 18 2018 09:11:49 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows Server 2016 Standard 10.0 (Build 14393: ) (Hypervisor) going via AWS DMS, which is then sending the data to a […] |
| Fragmentation & Statistics - Hi All Was approached with a slow running query. First thing I did was update statistics on the entire DB which improved the performance drastically. The problem is that the performance starts to degrade after about an hour or so at which point I update stats again - I've set up a job to update […] |
| Sql error log - We have job which is configured to recycle the sql error log on daily basis and its failing with the error DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator. [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 2528) SQLServerAgent Error: 32. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 22022). The step failed. we renamed the sql error log out file […] |
| Development - SQL Server 2014 |
| Can I use UNPIVOT - Hi I have a table which I would like to turn columns into rows. create table Customer ( CID int not null, WholeSaler bit not null, ReSaler bit not null, Retail bit not null ) insert into Customer values (1, 0,0,1), (2, 1,1,1), (3, 1,0,0) I would like to get this output CID CustType 1 […] |
| Table Alerts - I would like to build something as described below. An Insurancetable which has InsurerName, PhoneNumber, InsureAmount and InsureRenewalDateTime I would like to send reminder text messages to Insurer phones everytime they are due on their Insurance at EXACTLY the datetime they are due. What is the best possible way to achieve this from the database […] |
| How to reduce lock or avoid lock while encoding SQL statement - under active monitor, I found there was very amount of cumulative wait time(sec) for Lock, now I want to know how many ways to reduce lock or avoid lock while encoding SQL statement, and if there is any way to reduce lock for the database or SQL server setting. many thanks! |
| Docusign API different UI - We have Apttus via which we use docusign and they use the classic UI of docusign. Now we have enabled embedded signing for certain users and when we invoke the docusign URL, the UI is of the new docusign which is not a consistent User experience. We are using the same account so wanted to […] |
| Addition of values from two fields - I have an inventory usage table that holds values for different locations and periods. The values are calculated by the ERP so I cannot change the SQL values, but in certain instances, I want to combine the values for two locations into one location and zero the usage for the original location. This would be […] |
| Azure Data Factory |
| Data masking using Azure Data Factory Data flows in Pipeline - Does any one have any good videos articles links to on how to do Data masking of PII information while using ADF V2 though Data flow |
| Reporting Services |
| LookUp function weird issue - I AM experiencing a weird issue with the LookUp function. I have a list grouped by certain field. For example employees grouped by city. For each employee i have a columna of the list where i use the LookUp function yo retrieve more info from another dataset. So far everything works as expected. But i […] |
| ? on Setting default value to Year of previous month - Hi, I know =Year(Today) will get me the current 4 digit year. What I need is the Year of the previous month. So if the report is run in January 2021, then the default value is 2020, if it is run in December of 2020, then its 2020 Thanks |
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