sql-server-2008-r2

I have a table in a SQL Server database which stores historical data on daily basis. The structure is shown below: UploadDate TypeID Value1 Value2 ------------------------------------------- 2012-01-08 1 NEG 1998-02-05 2012-01-08 2 NEG 1999-02-09 2012-01-08 3 STABLE 1997-02-06 2012-02-08 1 NEG 1998-02-05 2012-02-08 2 NEG 1999-02-09 2012-03-08 1 POS 2012-03-08 2012-03-08 2 STABLE 2012-01-08 As you can see above for the TypeID 1 & 2, Value1 and Value2 has changed on 2012-03-08 My requirement is such that I have to show only those rows which have changed from previous values. In this case since

I have been google about this for a while..is there any way to identify the estimated query execution time> There are actual execution plan and estimated execution plan on the ssms .The thing is none of these have estimated time. Is it something lacking in the Sql Server? Peter Currently, no. Microsoft is currently researching ways to do this using a combination of work already completed and an estimated execution plan (See the details of their research on the Microsoft Research site ), so we can expect to see something soon. But this is the only development that I am aware of. The solution I

I am transferring data into a table all of sudden I went throgh a crazy problem I have never seen in my career. Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Invalid object name 'dbo.Table_Report'. Then I tried to create a table with same name and again I got fallowing error Msg 2714, Level 16, State 6, Line 2 There is already an object named 'Table_Report' in the database. What went wrong I need to send data in to table asap but I am unable to do that at least I can't delete the table Cannot drop the table 'Table_Report', because it does not exist or you do not have permission. Note: I have admin rights

I have an XML hierarchy like this in an XML type column of a table with 10,000 records- <Root> <Elem1> <Parent1> <Separator> <Child1/> </Separator> </Parent1> </Elem1> </Root> I have a query like this - DECLARE @Root VARCHAR(50) DECLARE @Entity VARCHAR(50) DECLARE @ParentNode VARCHAR(50) DECLARE @Separator VARCHAR(50) DECLARE @ChildNode VARCHAR(50) SET @Root = 'Root' SET @Entity = 'Elem1' SET @ParentNode = 'Parent1' SET @Separator = 'separator' SET @ChildNode = 'Child1' select Parent.P.value('.', 'varchar(max)') as MyValue, T.uniqueId, T.XMLCol from [XMLTable] as T cross apply (SELECT XMLTable

I accidentally created a column with the wrong type NVARCHAR (for storing password salts) and I want to convert it to NVARBINARY . I tried ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] ALTER COLUMN [ColumnName] [varbinary] (20) NOT NULL GO but it says Implicit conversion from data type nvarchar to varbinary is not allowed. Use the CONVERT function to run this query. Is there a way to do that? CONVERT seems to be for expressions only, not for alterations. The only way by altering will be someting like: Create Table a (id int,blb Nvarchar(10)) insert into a Values (1,'Test'), (2,N'Test2'); BEGIN Transaction

I am new to this forum but please bear with me. I have a c# Windows form which has two checkboxes on it One is called chkThrowError and the other is called chkDivideError, both are unchecked. These controls are purely there to control execution of a stored procedure. I have a command Button with the following Code: private void cmdError_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { int ThrowError = 0; int DividByZero = 0; if (chkThrowError.Checked) { ThrowError = 1; } if (chkDivideError.Checked) { DividByZero = 1; } try { clsBBFinances.TestError(ThrowError,DividByZero); MessageBox.Show("Everything is