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Question I am using SQL Server Express edition, so there is no features for backup plan, I want to take databases backup using bat script, and create a scheduler to be run everyday. I have created .bat file but need to place a time stamp … [Read More]

Question In SQL Server, if the Database is in Read_only mode, can we drop/remove unused roles? Please let me know. Thanks in advance asked 2017-04-17 by Bharath Kuamr reddy Answer If a database is in READ_ONLY mode, it is completely read-only. The read-only-ness is not … [Read More]

Question Let’s imagine a stored procedure that retreives data and do some kind of pagination. This procedure has some inputs describing which set of data we want and how we sort it. Here is a very simple query, but let’s take it as an example. … [Read More]

Question I just got a Sql Server 2016 Availability Group setup (A Primary, a Syncronous Secondary and a Async Secondary). I have five databases on the servers. I setup an application to run queries against the server (using Entity Framework with a “failover partner” connection … [Read More]

Question We have a 120GB database. There was table with 60GB of data which is useless and we have truncated it. Now database size is 120GB with free space 60GB. The database will not grow up to 60GB in at least 3 months. So can … [Read More]

Question I am having trouble getting a trigger to work. What it needs to do is to prevent any customer with last name Glass from being inserted into the database. This is what I have: The issue is when I add customers with last name … [Read More]

Question This question was attempted twice on experts-exchange with no real answer. I know that I should not shrink the log file – that is not the question. If you feel like answering that one should not do it- that has been confirmed many times … [Read More]

Question I’m creating a query that has a column of dates stored as a VARCHAR in the format DD-MMM-YYYY. Could you tell me how I can convert this into date format please? I don’t want to alter the original table in any way, as it’s … [Read More]

Question One of our SQL Server 2014 database transaction logs is growing very fast and I cannot find the root cause for this. Database in Simple recovery mode. During full backup the log file grows to its limits (800GB) and backup fails. I checked the … [Read More]