Archive for 'SQL' Category
SQLTRACE_BUFFER_FLUSH, Performance Metrics on SQL Server 2005
10 December 2007Tuning your SQL 2005 Database with built in metrics.
Easy way to kill MS SQL server transaction logs
19 August 2007I manage many SQL 2000 databases. And many times while performing maintenance I have run into the ‘transaction log full’ error.
like this: Error: 9002, Severity: 17, State: 2 The log file for database ‘%.*ls’ is full.
So like many people I resort to using the commands [...]
Utilizing SQL 2005 Linked Server to connect to external systems via OLE DB
10 March 2007You can utilize MS SQL Server 2005’s Linked Servers ability to connect to any OLE DB provider. Here we are connecting to an iSeries (AS/400) DB2 using the IBMDA400 ole db provider
Here is the command to add a linked server:
EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedserver
@server = N'MYSERVER',
@srvproduct=N'IBMDA400',
@provider=N'IBMDA400',
@datasrc=N'MYSERVER',
@provstr=N'Transport Product=Client Access;
Force Translate=0;
DATA SOURCE=MYSERVER;
USER ID=MYUSERID;
PASSWORD=MYPASSWORD;
Connect Timeout=30;'
You’ll notice the Force Translate is set [...]
Creating a Period Date Range Table, with SQL!
18 October 2006You need a way to lump dated records into periodic chunks, like say for a timesheet system. Say your company’s payroll periods are bi-weekly (that’s every other week). So you need a way to distinguish the dated payroll data into two week timesheets.
Sure you could spend three days figuring out a fancy algorithm, only to [...]
HOWTO Get the last day of the month with SQL
30 June 2006Have you ever needed to find out what the last day of the month was with SQL. Lets say you needed to round up a date to the last day of the month… I found this necessary when writing a HR Benefits extract… They needed the benefits end date to be the last day of [...]