Articles by Andy

Question I have 2 node Windows Failover Cluster with Quorum disk. SQL agent is NOT a resource of the cluster. I needed to enable service broker on the server; for that I need to set SQL Agent offline, run tsql statement then simply put it … [Read More]

Question Is there a query I can run that will show me all tables with an identity column? Trying to figure out if there are any identity based tables whose current identity is nearing upper bound of int32 or int64. asked 2021-07-02 by user2368632 Answer … [Read More]

Question We have had an issue this morning with a report failing due to the following error: "Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string" The issue is that in the database we had a value (in a VARCHAR field) of: ‘31.07/2021’ The … [Read More]

Question Is there a way in SQL Server 2012 to get what the server time zone would be on a particular date/time? In SQL Server 2016, you have AT TIME ZONE, but that’s not available in 2012. I have a datetimeoffset and I need to … [Read More]

Question I came across some weird behavior: While passing a float value into a varchar column, the values are getting converted from integers into scientific notation, and it’s that scientific notation that gets stored as a string. results look like this: 1.49559e+006 Scientific notation stored … [Read More]

Question I have been using linked server with the old provider (SQLNCLI) without any issue, as recommended by Microsoft, I’m planning to switch to new provider (MSOLEDBSQL). I’m able to add linked server using following T-SQL after installing the drivers Unfortunately, getting following error when … [Read More]

Question I understand that table partitioning is mostly done for data management. I understand that table maintenance becomes more difficult for large tables, since e.g. an index rebuild cannot fit in memory or because e.g. sorts scale with O(n*log(n)) and this causes extra problems with … [Read More]

Question Error message: Msg 4145, Level 15, State 1, Procedure usp_BaseScan_CycleCount_Report, Line 16 An expression of non-boolean type specified in a context where a condition is expected, near ‘AND’. Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure usp_BaseScan_CycleCount_Report, Line 21 Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘ELSE’. … [Read More]

Question My organization had a security audit and was told that we need to DISABLE the "allow remote connection to this server" option for all of our SQL Servers. What impact would this have on connection to the SQL Server via Management Studio (SSMS) from … [Read More]