set @s1='=' select top 3 @s1=@s1+' '+ bName from #test order by isnull(seqNum,999) print @s1 Result : = Name1 1 2 = 2 = Name1 1 2 --- Microsoft SQL Server Developer (64-bit), Windows 10 Pro, Version 15.0.2104.1
Assign empty string '' if datetime is null Assign EXEC output to Variable Assigning NULL value to column name using Case Statement of where is SQL SERVER 2008 atomic if not exists() and insert or update Attempt to fetch logical page (1:155534) in database 7 failed. It belongs to allocati...
usrt.[name] AS [DataType], ISNULL(baset.[name], N'') AS [SystemType], CAST(CASE WHEN baset.[name] IN (N'char', N'varchar', N'binary', N'varbinary', N'nchar', N'nvarchar') THEN clmns.prec ELSE clmns.length END AS int) AS [Length], CAST(clmns.xprec AS tinyint) AS [...
9096 NOT IN 9865 NOT EXISTS 8954 OUTER JOIN WITH NULL DETECT 9816 EXCEPT in SQL 2005 Just in case, SELECT RowNum FROM dbo.JBMTest EXCEPT SELECT RowNUM from dbo.JBMTest2 And I always thought EXCEPT is better than NOT IN or NOT EXISTS or LEFT OUTER JOIN ...
SQL Coalesce function The SQL Coalesce and IsNull functions are used to handle NULL values. During the expression evaluation process the NULL values are replaced with the user-defined value. The SQL Coalesce function evaluates the arguments in order and always returns first non-null value from ...
'cannot access the file' when run as an SQL Agent Job (works when executed from BIDS) 'DECODE' is not a recognized built-in function name. 'DTEXEC.EXE' is not recognized as an internal or external command, 'gacutil' is not recognized as an internal or external command 'http://schemas...
TRANSLATE() only works on SQL Server 2017. You need to ensure your database compatibility is set to at least 140. With either REPLACE() or TRANSLATE(), if the string is NULL, the value returned is NULL. There is no difference in how either handle NULLs. ...
01.-- By default ANSI_NULLS is off so null comparisons follows the SQL-92 standard. 02.-- In future version of SQL Server, it won't be possible to modify this setting. 03.SET ANSI_NULLS OFF 04. 05.IF EXISTS(select 1 from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME='CITIES') 06....
I am on holidays in another state at the moment, so I can not get my previous work; however here is an approach that is a little bit less verbose than my example: http://pratchev.blogspot.com/2008/11/import-xml-file-to-sql-table.html When I get back, I will post my example...
You can limit the number of rows inserted in the new table. You can either use a TOP clause if it doesn’t really matter which rows are inserted: SELECTTOP(100)[BusinessEntityID],[PersonType],[NameStyle],[Title],[FirstName],[MiddleName],[LastName],FullName=[FirstName]+' '+ISNULL(...