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Ran into a similar issue while restoring the database using SQL server management studio and it got stuck into restoring mode. After several hours of issue tracking, the following query worked …

We all know that to select all columns from a table, we can use SELECT * FROM tableA Is there a way to exclude column(s) from a table without specifying all the columns? SELECT * [except …

7 This answer is a small addition to the highest voted answer and works for SQL Server. The question requested an auto increment primary key, the current answer does add the primary …

Select Coalesce(listing.OfferText, company.OfferText, '') As Offer_Text, from tbl_directorylisting listing Inner Join tbl_companymaster company On listing.company_id= company.company_id …

I'm trying to determine the best way to truncate or drop extra decimal places in SQL without rounding. For example: declare @value decimal(18,2) set @value = 123.456 This will …

This was an example, but the point is as Eric said in How can I do an UPDATE statement with JOIN in SQL Server?. You need to add an UPDATE statement at first with the full address of …

SQL Server 2017 CU12 also supports this feature. Improvement: Optional replacement for "String or binary data would be truncated" message with extended information in SQL Server 2017 …

I used GETDATE () as a date to work with, you can replace it with the date which you need. Here's how this works: First we format the date in YYYYMMDD... format truncating to keep …

SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM master.sys.procedures as procs left join master.sys.parameters as params on procs.object_id = params.object_id This seems totally correct, but I keep getting …