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SQL Agent’s schema is older than me. It handles dates, times, and durations like it’s 1980 by using integers instead of date/time data types. My buddy Aaron Bertrand talks more about Dating Responsibly so that you can have a good datetime with your own …
Continue readingStatistics auto-updates are generally a good thing–auto-update of statistics is the default behavior in SQL Server. Having the freshest information about the data “shape” helps to inform the best selection of an execution plan for queries.
Continue readingQuestion I am converting the times of some datetimeoffset columns from UTC to Eastern. I am doing this via the command UPDATE MyTable SET MyColumn = MyColumn AT TIME ZONE 'Eastern Standard Time' This seemed to be working correctly (times were shifted 4 hours …
Continue readingQuestion 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'
Continue readingQuestion 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 convert it to the server's …
Continue readingQuestion Table sysjobschedules contains 2 columns next_run_date and next_run_time. With the help of sysschedules and column enable it should be easy to determine the next running date/time of a specific job. However, when you change a schedule, …
Continue readingQuestion I have two sql servers, in the first I want to keep the data from the last three months and in the second I want to keep all the data with the purpose of getting historical reports. I know how to do a transactional replica but I don't know how to …
Continue readingQuestion I wrote a script that reads job schedules from msdb.dbo.sysschedules and runs sp_update_schedule to change the active_start_time for a given subset of jobs. In each case, sp_update_schedule fails with the message "The specified @schedule_id('xxx') …
Continue readingI was fiddling around with some data, looking at making a quick aging report. I probably should have reached for Power BI Desktop, but sometimes I can be stubborn, and I wanted to get my T-SQL to work–if nothing else to figure out how to make it work.
Continue readingnilsinelabore is struggling with Excel date/time formats after converting a CSV to Excel.
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