sql-server-2008-r2

Let's say I have the following statement and the inner join results in 3 rows where a.Id = b.Id, but each of the 3 rows have different b.Value's. Since only one row from tableA is being updated, which of the 3 values is used in the update? UPDATE a SET a.Value = b.Value FROM tableA AS a INNER JOIN tableB as b ON a.Id = b.Id I don't think there are rules for this case and you cannot depend on a particular outcome. If you're after a specific row, say the latest one, you can use apply , like: UPDATE a SET a.Value = b.Value FROM tableA AS a CROSS APPLY ( select top 1 * from tableB as b where b.id

Been playing around with the Code First feature of Entity Framework 4.1 using an ASP.NET MVC 3 project. However the database (SQL Server 2008 R2) does not automatically create the table mapping on application startup. Any ideas on how to make it do so? The project has only one POCO: namespace RIS.Models { public class Person { [Key] public virtual string NRIC { get; protected set; } public virtual string FirstName { get; protected set; } public virtual string MiddleName { get; protected set; } public virtual string LastName { get; protected set; } } } It also has the following database context

Countless times during the day I am copying and pasting records from SQL Server Management Studio to Excel. My problem is that a DateTime value such as 8/23/2013 4:51:02 PM does not display correctly as shown in the image below even though it shows correctly in the function box. Changing the datatype to ShortDate fixes the display issues, but it is tedious to do since I have lots of date fields to format. Since Excel and SQL Server are both Microsoft products one would expect that Excel would be able to correctly show the date field. EDIT: So this appears to be a display issue with Excel. I

Assume the assembly dll: using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server; using System.Data.SqlClient; using System.Data.SqlTypes; using System; using System.Text; namespace CLRFunctions { public class T { [SqlFunction(DataAccess = DataAccessKind.Read)] public static String NormalizeString(String s, String normalizationForm) { NormalizationForm form = NormalizationForm.FormC; if (String.Equals(f, "FormD", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) form = NormalizationForm.FormD; return = s.Normalize(form); } } } Note : Target the assembly to .NET 3.5 as SQL Server doesn't support .NET 4.0 Copy the assembly to a

I use the following to search for strings in my stored procedures: use DBname SELECT Name FROM sys.procedures WHERE OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) LIKE '%xxx%' Is it easy to amend the above so that it searches Table names in a specific db "DBname" ? I'm using this and works fine SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE '%%' select name from DBname.sys.tables where name like '%xxx%' and is_ms_shipped = 0; -- << comment out if you really want to see them I am assuming you want to pass the database name as a parameter and not just run: SELECT * FROM DBName.sys.tables WHERE Name

I have table like this; Date PlacementName campaignID Impressions Clicks TotalConversions Activity 01/01/2014 USA 100 5000 500 50 Mobile Book 01/02/2014 U.K 101 7000 250 30 Mobile Book 01/01/2014 USA 100 9000 800 40 Mobile TV 01/02/2014 U.K 101 6000 300 10 Mobile TV I want to pivot table for 15-20 Activity from the real table because this is just example table. I want my table look like below; Date PlacementName CampaignID Impressions Clicks Mobile Book Mobile TV 01/01/2014 USA 100 5000 500 50 NULL 01/01/2014 U.K 100 9000 800 NULL 40 01/02/2014 USA 101 7000 250 30 NULL 01/02/2014 U.K 101 6000