CONCAT() – SQL Server 2012
With SQL Server 2012 a new string function is born – CONCAT(). The output is a string, as the result of the concatenation of two or more strings – if the input is another type than string a conversion...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit
The SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit has been updated with a bunch of new content (download it here ). This update includes eleven new hands-on labs covering Integration Services, the Semantic...
View ArticleSQL server 2012 Startup parameters
I’m sure that I’m not the only one with nightmares about the startup parameters in older versions of SQL Server 200x – the design and UI is just bad, it is so easy to forget a semicolon or mess up the...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012: Detecting Sort Warnings with Extended Events (sort_warning...
In my last post, SQL Server 2012: Detecting Sort Warnings with Extended Events (sortwarning event) I showed how to use sortwarning event with sql_text action to detect sort warnings in database with...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 – new conversion functions
With SQL Server 2012 comes a new set of conversion functions , that will certainly help doing type casts and conversions in t-sql. These functions are: TRYPARSE TRYCONVERT PARSE TRYPARSE() Syntax from...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit BOM
The SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Team has put together some great resources to assist developers with skilling up on SQL Server 2012; one of which is the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit BOM...
View ArticleSQL-Articles » AWE option no longer available in SQL Server 2012
AWE (Addressing Windows Extension) is one of the know server configuration to everyone. This parameter allows SQL Server to access large amount of memory in 32 bit machines. However MS decided to...
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