When working with dates and times in SQL Server, it’s common for formatting discrepancies to cause issues during query execution. To prevent errors, it’s crucial to ensure that date strings are ...

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[users] ( [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [name] [nvarchar](255) NOT NULL, [email] [nvarchar](255) NOT NULL, [email_verified_at] [datetime] NULL ...

When performing an UPDATE with a datetime field, the following exception is generated: The server returned: " An exception occurred while executing 'UPDATE MyTable ...

This post shows some expressions that we needed to use to consume SQL Server time columns – and it was fairly complex. We have since released a new feature in PowerApps that makes this easier. Take a ...

Comparing cursor vs. WHILE loop performance in SQL Server 2008 Your email has been sent Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option ...

A collection of 26 free stand-alone tools, components and frameworks has been released. This collection is designed to enhance using and developing for SQL Server 2008 as well as other versions of SQL ...

450793 – Import Wizard in SQL 2005 cannot import from text file that was exported from SQL 2000 The current UI enforces a maximum of 1000 sampled rows so there is no way for a customer to scan more ...

One thing that was not immediately evident in the noise about the recent launch of Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 was the fact that the next-gen database isn't generally available yet. Microsoft says SQL ...

With the launch of SQL Server 2005 coming in November, Microsoft has formalized the implementation guidance and marketing support it will provide to its partners and customers. The support comes in ...

While designing large databases, one of the most commonly done things to incorporate future additions to the data fields is, adding a number of generic fields that can later be used as additional data ...