sql-server-2016

I'm using database first entity framework 6. After changing some of the tables in my schema to be temporal tables, I started getting the following error when attempting to insert new data: Cannot insert an explicit value into a GENERATED ALWAYS column in table '<MyDatabase>.dbo.<MyTableName>. Use INSERT with a column list to exclude the GENERATED ALWAYS column, or insert a DEFAULT into GENERATED ALWAYS column. It looks like EF is trying to update the values of the PERIOD columns which are managed by the system. Removing the columns from the EDMX file seems to correct the problem, but this is

I was doing some demo in SQL Server 2016 for topic Always encrypted. Got few doubts. Below are the steps followed: In Database server (hosted in Microsoft Azure VM): In table MyTable , Created the Column Encryption Key (CEK) and Master Encryption Key (CMK) Select * from MyTable , shows encrypted data.(both from App and DB server) Exported the certificate from Database Server Imported the certificate in App Server (my Local machine) Added Column Encryption Setting=Enabled to the connection string of my application. It is working fine, now it shows the plain text data as expected. Doubt: In

I want to move a table into a specific Schema using T-SQL? I am using SQL Server 2008. Mitch Wheat ALTER SCHEMA TargetSchema TRANSFER SourceSchema.TableName; If you want to move all tables into a new schema, you can use the undocumented (and to be deprecated at some point, but unlikely!) sp_MSforeachtable stored procedure: exec sp_MSforeachtable "ALTER SCHEMA TargetSchema TRANSFER ?" Ref.: ALTER SCHEMA SQL 2008: How do I change db schema to dbo Short answer: ALTER SCHEMA new_schema TRANSFER old_schema.table_name I can confirm that the data in the table remains intact, which is probably quite