Today I was trying to join two fields from different tables. One of the table in the query was from a linked sql server with a different collation. As such when runing this comparision I was getting the error Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “Latin1_General_BIN” and “Latin1_General_CI_AS” in the equal to operation. I am sure many of us would have got this error from time to time. The way I resolved this was simple. Use collate database_default in the comparision statement.

Hence you statement will look like this:

Select * From table1, table2

Where x = y

AND (table1.departmentid =  left(table2.dept,2) collate database_default)

Many a times on a Web load balancer, developers argue whether to use InProc or Out of Process session management.  The way to acheive InProc session management is by using Affinity. What it means is once a user request hits a web server, all the subsequent requests must be directed to the same web server, other the session will be lost. These are also called sticky sessions. Some pros and cons of this approach.

Cons:

1. If the asp .net worker process recycles all the sessions are lost

2. When you need to upgrade you need to wait all the users from a particular server to finish their job or else need to kill their sessions, they cant automatically be transferred to other sessions

Ever wondered how you can convert a varchar without the hyphens or dashes to a uniqueidentifier.

Here is the small t-sql script you can use.

declare @UserId varchar ( 50 )

set @UserId = ‘80d002c67a5d47899ead410a7342f03d’

SET @UserId = LEFT(@UserId, 8 )

+ ‘-’ + SUBSTRING(@UserId, 9, 4)

+ ‘-’ + SUBSTRING(@UserId, 13, 4)

+ ‘-’ + SUBSTRING(@UserId, 17, 4)

+ ‘-’ + SUBSTRING(@UserId, 21, 12)

This will return 80d002c6-7a5d-4789-9ead-410a7342f03d

There is no direct option to create a hyperlink in SSRS, however you still can create links. This is how.

When designing the report:

• Open up a text box properties window

• In the Value box enter the display for the link. You can use the expressions too.

• Go to Navigation

• Enable Jump to URL

• In the URL enter =”javascript:void(window.open(‘http://localhost/VBMS2/WorkTray/WorkItemOpen.aspx?T=V&WIS=67B3D3AD-156C-4D52-B46D-87E12827B11F’, ‘_blank’))” . Add the URL you would like to launch.   _Blank, is used to launch the link in a new window.

Note that reporting services will not display the underlined and blue color hyperlinks, one trick is to format the text color to blue and use Font Decoration Underline.

Execute the following Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL datetime and date formatting scripts in Management Studio Query Editor to demonstrate the multitude of temporal data formats available in SQL Server.

First we start with the conversion options available for sql datetime formats with century (YYYY or CCYY format). Subtracting 100 from the Style (format) number will transform dates without century (YY). For example Style 103 is with century, Style 3 is without century. The default Style values – Style 0 or 100, 9 or 109, 13 or 113, 20 or 120, and 21 or 121 – always return the century (yyyy) format.

– Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL date and datetime formats

– Date time formats – mssql datetime 

– MSSQL getdate returns current system date and time in standard internal format

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 100) – mon dd yyyy hh:mmAM (or PM)

                                        – Oct  2 2008 11:01AM          

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 101) – mm/dd/yyyy - 10/02/2008                  

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 102) – yyyy.mm.dd – 2008.10.02           

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 103) – dd/mm/yyyy

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 104) – dd.mm.yyyy

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 105) – dd-mm-yyyy

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 106) – dd mon yyyy

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 107) – mon dd, yyyy

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 108) – hh:mm:ss

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 109) – mon dd yyyy hh:mm:ss:mmmAM (or PM)

                                        – Oct  2 2008 11:02:44:013AM   

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 110) – mm-dd-yyyy

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 111) – yyyy/mm/dd

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 112) – yyyymmdd

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 113) – dd mon yyyy hh:mm:ss:mmm

                                        – 02 Oct 2008 11:02:07:577     

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 114) – hh:mm:ss:mmm(24h)

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 120) – yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss(24h)

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 121) – yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.mmm

SELECT convert(varchar, getdate(), 126) – yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.mmm

                                        – 2008-10-02T10:52:47.513

– SQL create different date styles with t-sql string functions

SELECT replace(convert(varchar, getdate(), 111), ‘/’, ‘ ‘) – yyyy mm dd

SELECT convert(varchar(7), getdate(), 126)                 – yyyy-mm

SELECT right(convert(varchar, getdate(), 106), 8)          – mon yyyy

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– SQL Server date formatting function – convert datetime to string

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– SQL datetime functions

– SQL Server date formats

– T-SQL convert dates

– Formatting dates sql server

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fnFormatDate (@Datetime DATETIME, @FormatMask VARCHAR(32))

RETURNS VARCHAR(32)

AS

BEGIN

    DECLARE @StringDate VARCHAR(32)

    SET @StringDate = @FormatMask

    IF (CHARINDEX (‘YYYY’,@StringDate) > 0)

       SET @StringDate = REPLACE(@StringDate, ‘YYYY’,

                         DATENAME(YY, @Datetime))

    IF (CHARINDEX (‘YY’,@StringDate) > 0)

       SET @StringDate = REPLACE(@StringDate, ‘YY’,

                         RIGHT(DATENAME(YY, @Datetime),2))

    IF (CHARINDEX (‘Month’,@StringDate) > 0)

       SET @StringDate = REPLACE(@StringDate, ‘Month’,

                         DATENAME(MM, @Datetime))

    IF (CHARINDEX (‘MON’,@StringDate COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS)>0)

       SET @StringDate = REPLACE(@StringDate, ‘MON’,

                         LEFT(UPPER(DATENAME(MM, @Datetime)),3))

    IF (CHARINDEX (‘Mon’,@StringDate) > 0)

       SET @StringDate = REPLACE(@StringDate, ‘Mon’,

                                     LEFT(DATENAME(MM, @Datetime),3))

    IF (CHARINDEX (‘MM’,@StringDate) > 0)

       SET @StringDate = REPLACE(@StringDate, ‘MM’,

                  RIGHT(‘0′+CONVERT(VARCHAR,DATEPART(MM, @Datetime)),2))

    IF (CHARINDEX (‘M’,@StringDate) > 0)

       SET @StringDate = REPLACE(@StringDate, ‘M’,

                         CONVERT(VARCHAR,DATEPART(MM, @Datetime)))

    IF (CHARINDEX (‘DD’,@StringDate) > 0)

       SET @StringDate = REPLACE(@StringDate, ‘DD’,

                         RIGHT(‘0′+DATENAME(DD, @Datetime),2))

    IF (CHARINDEX (‘D’,@StringDate) > 0)

       SET @StringDate = REPLACE(@StringDate, ‘D’,

                                     DATENAME(DD, @Datetime))   

RETURN @StringDate

END

GO

– Microsoft SQL Server date format function test

– MSSQL formatting dates

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘MM/DD/YYYY’)           – 01/03/2012

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘DD/MM/YYYY’)           – 03/01/2012

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘M/DD/YYYY’)            – 1/03/2012

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘M/D/YYYY’)             – 1/3/2012

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘M/D/YY’)               – 1/3/12

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘MM/DD/YY’)             – 01/03/12

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘MON DD, YYYY’)         – JAN 03, 2012

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘Mon DD, YYYY’)         – Jan 03, 2012

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘Month DD, YYYY’)       – January 03, 2012

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘YYYY/MM/DD’)           – 2012/01/03

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘YYYYMMDD’)             – 20120103

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (getdate(), ‘YYYY-MM-DD’)           – 2012-01-03

– CURRENT_TIMESTAMP returns current system date and time in standard internal format

SELECT dbo.fnFormatDate (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,‘YY.MM.DD’)      – 12.01.03

GO

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/***** SELECTED SQL DATE/DATETIME FORMATS WITH NAMES *****/

– SQL format datetime

– Default format: Oct 23 2006 10:40AM

SELECT [Default]=CONVERT(varchar,GETDATE(),100)

– US-Style format: 10/23/2006

SELECT [US-Style]=CONVERT(char,GETDATE(),101)

– ANSI format: 2006.10.23

SELECT [ANSI]=CONVERT(char,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,102)

– UK-Style format: 23/10/2006

SELECT [UK-Style]=CONVERT(char,GETDATE(),103)

– German format: 23.10.2006

SELECT [German]=CONVERT(varchar,GETDATE(),104)

– ISO format: 20061023

SELECT ISO=CONVERT(varchar,GETDATE(),112)

– ISO8601 format: 2008-10-23T19:20:16.003

SELECT [ISO8601]=CONVERT(varchar,GETDATE(),126)

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– SQL Server datetime formats

– Century date format MM/DD/YYYY usage in a query

– Format dates SQL Server 2005

SELECT TOP (1)

      SalesOrderID,

      OrderDate = CONVERT(char(10), OrderDate, 101),

      OrderDateTime = OrderDate

FROM AdventureWorks.Sales.SalesOrderHeader

/* Result

SalesOrderID      OrderDate               OrderDateTime

43697             07/01/2001          2001-07-01 00:00:00.000

*/

– SQL update datetime column

– SQL datetime DATEADD

UPDATE Production.Product

SET ModifiedDate=DATEADD(dd,1, ModifiedDate)

WHERE ProductID = 1001

– MM/DD/YY date format

– Datetime format sql

SELECT TOP (1)

      SalesOrderID,

      OrderDate = CONVERT(varchar(8), OrderDate, 1),

      OrderDateTime = OrderDate

FROM AdventureWorks.Sales.SalesOrderHeader

ORDER BY SalesOrderID desc

/* Result

SalesOrderID      OrderDate         OrderDateTime

75123             07/31/04          2004-07-31 00:00:00.000

*/

– Combining different style formats for date & time

– Datetime formats

– Datetime formats sql

DECLARE @Date DATETIME

SET @Date = ‘2015-12-22 03:51 PM’

SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(10),@Date,110) + SUBSTRING(CONVERT(varchar,@Date,0),12,8)

– Result: 12-22-2015  3:51PM

– Microsoft SQL Server cast datetime to string

SELECT stringDateTime=CAST (getdate() as varchar)

– Result: Dec 29 2012  3:47AM

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– SQL Server date and time functions overview

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– SQL Server CURRENT_TIMESTAMP function

– SQL Server datetime functions

– local NYC – EST – Eastern Standard Time zone

– SQL DATEADD function – SQL DATEDIFF function

SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP                        – 2012-01-05 07:02:10.577

– SQL Server DATEADD function

SELECT DATEADD(month,2,‘2012-12-09′)            – 2013-02-09 00:00:00.000

– SQL Server DATEDIFF function

SELECT DATEDIFF(day,‘2012-12-09′,‘2013-02-09′)  – 62

– SQL Server DATENAME function

SELECT DATENAME(month,   ‘2012-12-09′)          – December

SELECT DATENAME(weekday, ‘2012-12-09′)          – Sunday

– SQL Server DATEPART function

SELECT DATEPART(month, ‘2012-12-09′)            – 12

– SQL Server DAY function

SELECT DAY(‘2012-12-09′)                        – 9

– SQL Server GETDATE function

– local NYC – EST – Eastern Standard Time zone

SELECT GETDATE()                                – 2012-01-05 07:02:10.577

– SQL Server GETUTCDATE function

– London – Greenwich Mean Time

SELECT GETUTCDATE()                             – 2012-01-05 12:02:10.577

– SQL Server MONTH function

SELECT MONTH(‘2012-12-09′)                      – 12

– SQL Server YEAR function

SELECT YEAR(‘2012-12-09′)                       – 2012

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– T-SQL Date and time function application

– CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and getdate() are the same in T-SQL

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– SQL first day of the month

– SQL first date of the month

– SQL first day of current month – 2012-01-01 00:00:00.000

SELECT DATEADD(dd,0,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm,0,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP),0))

– SQL last day of the month

– SQL last date of the month

– SQL last day of current month – 2012-01-31 00:00:00.000

SELECT DATEADD(dd,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm,0,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)+1,0))

– SQL first day of last month

– SQL first day of previous month – 2011-12-01 00:00:00.000

SELECT DATEADD(mm,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm,0,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP),0))

– SQL last day of last month

– SQL last day of previous month – 2011-12-31 00:00:00.000

SELECT DATEADD(dd,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm,0,DATEADD(MM,-1,GETDATE()))+1,0))

– SQL first day of next month – 2012-02-01 00:00:00.000

SELECT DATEADD(mm,1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm,0,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP),0))

– SQL last day of next month – 2012-02-28 00:00:00.000

SELECT DATEADD(dd,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm,0,DATEADD(MM,1,GETDATE()))+1,0))

GO

– SQL first day of a month – 2012-10-01 00:00:00.000

DECLARE @Date datetime; SET @Date = ‘2012-10-23′

SELECT DATEADD(dd,0,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm,0,@Date),0))

GO

– SQL last day of a month – 2012-03-31 00:00:00.000

DECLARE @Date datetime; SET @Date = ‘2012-03-15′

SELECT DATEADD(dd,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm,0,@Date)+1,0))

GO

– SQL first day of year 

– SQL first day of the year  -  2012-01-01 00:00:00.000

SELECT DATEADD(yy, DATEDIFF(yy,0,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), 0)

– SQL last day of year  

– SQL last day of the year   – 2012-12-31 00:00:00.000

SELECT DATEADD(yy,1, DATEADD(dd, -1, DATEADD(yy,

                     DATEDIFF(yy,0,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), 0)))

– SQL last day of last year

– SQL last day of previous year   – 2011-12-31 00:00:00.000

SELECT DATEADD(dd,-1,DATEADD(yy,DATEDIFF(yy,0,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), 0))

GO

– SQL calculate age in years, months, days

– SQL table-valued function

– SQL user-defined function – UDF

– SQL Server age calculation – date difference

– Format dates SQL Server 2008

USE AdventureWorks2008;

GO

CREATE FUNCTION fnAge  (@BirthDate DATETIME)

RETURNS @Age TABLE(Years  INT,

                   Months INT,

                   Days   INT)

AS

  BEGIN

    DECLARE  @EndDate     DATETIME, @Anniversary DATETIME

    SET @EndDate = Getdate()

    SET @Anniversary = Dateadd(yy,Datediff(yy,@BirthDate,@EndDate),@BirthDate)

    INSERT @Age

    SELECT Datediff(yy,@BirthDate,@EndDate) - (CASE

                                                 WHEN @Anniversary > @EndDate THEN 1

                                                 ELSE 0

                                               END), 0, 0

     UPDATE @Age     SET    Months = Month(@EndDate - @Anniversary) - 1

    UPDATE @Age     SET    Days = Day(@EndDate - @Anniversary) - 1

    RETURN

  END

GO

– Test table-valued UDF

SELECT * FROM   fnAge(‘1956-10-23′)

SELECT * FROM   dbo.fnAge(‘1956-10-23′)

/* Results

Years       Months      Days

52          4           1

*/

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– SQL date range between

———-

– SQL between dates

USE AdventureWorks;

– SQL between

SELECT POs=COUNT(*) FROM Purchasing.PurchaseOrderHeader

WHERE OrderDate BETWEEN ‘20040301′ AND ‘20040315′

– Result: 108

– BETWEEN operator is equivalent to >=…AND….<=

SELECT POs=COUNT(*) FROM Purchasing.PurchaseOrderHeader

WHERE OrderDate

BETWEEN ‘2004-03-01 00:00:00.000′ AND ‘2004-03-15  00:00:00.000′

/*

Orders with OrderDates

‘2004-03-15  00:00:01.000′  – 1 second after midnight (12:00AM)

‘2004-03-15  00:01:00.000′  – 1 minute after midnight

‘2004-03-15  01:00:00.000′  – 1 hour after midnight

are not included in the two queries above.

*/

– To include the entire day of 2004-03-15 use the following two solutions

SELECT POs=COUNT(*) FROM Purchasing.PurchaseOrderHeader

WHERE OrderDate >= ‘20040301′ AND OrderDate < ‘20040316′

– SQL between with DATE type (SQL Server 2008)

SELECT POs=COUNT(*) FROM Purchasing.PurchaseOrderHeader

WHERE CONVERT(DATE, OrderDate) BETWEEN ‘20040301′ AND ‘20040315′

———-

– Non-standard format conversion: 2011 December 14

– SQL datetime to string

SELECT [YYYY Month DD] =

CAST(YEAR(GETDATE()) AS VARCHAR(4))+ ‘ ‘+

DATENAME(MM, GETDATE()) + ‘ ‘ +

CAST(DAY(GETDATE()) AS VARCHAR(2))

– Converting datetime to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format: 20121214172638

SELECT replace(convert(varchar, getdate(),111),‘/’,”) +

replace(convert(varchar, getdate(),108),‘:’,”)

– Datetime custom format conversion to YYYY_MM_DD

select CurrentDate=rtrim(year(getdate())) + ‘_’ +

right(‘0′ + rtrim(month(getdate())),2) + ‘_’ +

right(‘0′ + rtrim(day(getdate())),2)

– Converting seconds to HH:MM:SS format

declare @Seconds int

set @Seconds = 10000

select TimeSpan=right(‘0′ +rtrim(@Seconds / 3600),2) + ‘:’ +

right(‘0′ + rtrim((@Seconds % 3600) / 60),2) + ‘:’ +

right(‘0′ + rtrim(@Seconds % 60),2)

– Result: 02:46:40

– Test result

select 2*3600 + 46*60 + 40

– Result: 10000

– Set the time portion of a datetime value to 00:00:00.000

– SQL strip time from date

– SQL strip time from datetime

SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ,DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), 0)

– Results: 2014-01-23 05:35:52.793 2014-01-23 00:00:00.000

/*******

VALID DATE RANGES FOR DATE/DATETIME DATA TYPES

SMALLDATETIME date range:

January 1, 1900 through June 6, 2079

DATETIME date range:

January 1, 1753 through December 31, 9999

DATETIME2 date range (SQL Server 2008):

January 1,1 AD through December 31, 9999 AD

DATE date range (SQL Server 2008):

January 1, 1 AD through December 31, 9999 AD

*******/

– Selecting with CONVERT into different styles

– Note: Only Japan & ISO styles can be used in ORDER BY

SELECT TOP(1)

     Italy  = CONVERT(varchar, OrderDate, 105)

   , USA    = CONVERT(varchar, OrderDate, 110)

   , Japan  = CONVERT(varchar, OrderDate, 111)

   , ISO    = CONVERT(varchar, OrderDate, 112)

FROM AdventureWorks.Purchasing.PurchaseOrderHeader

ORDER BY PurchaseOrderID DESC

/* Results

Italy       USA         Japan       ISO

25-07-2004  07-25-2004  2004/07/25  20040725

*/

– SQL Server convert date to integer

DECLARE @Datetime datetime

SET @Datetime = ‘2012-10-23 10:21:05.345′

SELECT DateAsInteger = CAST (CONVERT(varchar,@Datetime,112) as INT)

– Result: 20121023

– SQL Server convert integer to datetime

DECLARE @intDate int

SET @intDate = 20120315

SELECT IntegerToDatetime = CAST(CAST(@intDate as varchar) as datetime)

– Result: 2012-03-15 00:00:00.000

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– SQL Server CONVERT script applying table INSERT/UPDATE

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– SQL Server convert date

– Datetime column is converted into date only string column

USE tempdb;

GO

CREATE TABLE sqlConvertDateTime   (

            DatetimeCol datetime,

            DateCol char(8));

INSERT sqlConvertDateTime (DatetimeCol) SELECT GETDATE()

UPDATE sqlConvertDateTime

SET DateCol = CONVERT(char(10), DatetimeCol, 112)

SELECT * FROM sqlConvertDateTime

– SQL Server convert datetime

– The string date column is converted into datetime column

UPDATE sqlConvertDateTime

SET DatetimeCol = CONVERT(Datetime, DateCol, 112)

SELECT * FROM sqlConvertDateTime

– Adding a day to the converted datetime column with DATEADD

UPDATE sqlConvertDateTime

SET DatetimeCol = DATEADD(day, 1, CONVERT(Datetime, DateCol, 112))

SELECT * FROM sqlConvertDateTime

– Equivalent formulation

– SQL Server cast datetime

UPDATE sqlConvertDateTime

SET DatetimeCol = DATEADD(dd, 1, CAST(DateCol AS datetime))

SELECT * FROM sqlConvertDateTime

GO

DROP TABLE sqlConvertDateTime

GO

/* First results

DatetimeCol                   DateCol

2014-12-25 16:04:15.373       20141225 */

/* Second results:

DatetimeCol                   DateCol

2014-12-25 00:00:00.000       20141225  */

/* Third results:

DatetimeCol                   DateCol

2014-12-26 00:00:00.000       20141225  */

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– SQL month sequence – SQL date sequence generation with table variable

– SQL Server cast string to datetime – SQL Server cast datetime to string

– SQL Server insert default values method

DECLARE @Sequence table (Sequence int identity(1,1))

DECLARE @i int; SET @i = 0

DECLARE @StartDate datetime;

SET @StartDate = CAST(CONVERT(varchar, year(getdate()))+

                 RIGHT(‘0′+convert(varchar,month(getdate())),2) + ‘01′ AS DATETIME)

WHILE ( @i < 120)

BEGIN

      INSERT @Sequence DEFAULT VALUES

      SET @i = @i + 1

END

SELECT MonthSequence = CAST(DATEADD(month, Sequence,@StartDate) AS varchar)

FROM @Sequence

GO

/* Partial results:

MonthSequence

Jan  1 2012 12:00AM

Feb  1 2012 12:00AM

Mar  1 2012 12:00AM

Apr  1 2012 12:00AM

*/

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————

– SQL Server Server datetime internal storage

– SQL Server datetime formats

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– SQL Server datetime to hex

SELECT Now=CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, HexNow=CAST(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AS BINARY(8))

/* Results

Now                     HexNow

2009-01-02 17:35:59.297 0×00009B850122092D

*/

– SQL Server date part – left 4 bytes – Days since 1900-01-01

SELECT Now=DATEADD(DAY, CONVERT(INT, 0×00009B85), ‘19000101′)

GO

– Result: 2009-01-02 00:00:00.000

– SQL time part – right 4 bytes – milliseconds since midnight

– 1000/300 is an adjustment factor

– SQL dateadd to Midnight

SELECT Now=DATEADD(MS, (1000.0/300)* CONVERT(BIGINT, 0×0122092D), ‘2009-01-02′)

GO

– Result: 2009-01-02 17:35:59.290

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– String date and datetime date&time columns usage

– SQL Server datetime formats in tables

————

USE tempdb;

SET NOCOUNT ON;

– SQL Server select into table create

SELECT TOP (5)

      FullName=convert(nvarchar(50),FirstName+‘ ‘+LastName),

      BirthDate = CONVERT(char(8), BirthDate,112),

      ModifiedDate = getdate()

INTO Employee

FROM AdventureWorks.HumanResources.Employee e

INNER JOIN AdventureWorks.Person.Contact c

ON c.ContactID = e.ContactID

ORDER BY EmployeeID

GO

– SQL Server alter table

ALTER TABLE Employee ALTER COLUMN FullName nvarchar(50) NOT NULL

GO

ALTER TABLE Employee

ADD CONSTRAINT [PK_Employee] PRIMARY KEY (FullName )

GO

/* Results

Table definition for the Employee table

Note: BirthDate is string date (only)

CREATE TABLE dbo.Employee(

      FullName nvarchar(50) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,

      BirthDate char(8) NULL,

      ModifiedDate datetime NOT NULL

      )

*/

SELECT * FROM Employee ORDER BY FullName

GO

/* Results

FullName                BirthDate   ModifiedDate

Guy Gilbert             19720515    2009-01-03 10:10:19.217

Kevin Brown             19770603    2009-01-03 10:10:19.217

Rob Walters             19650123    2009-01-03 10:10:19.217

Roberto Tamburello      19641213    2009-01-03 10:10:19.217

Thierry D’Hers          19490829    2009-01-03 10:10:19.217

*/

– SQL Server age

SELECT FullName, Age = DATEDIFF(YEAR, BirthDate, GETDATE()),

       RowMaintenanceDate = CAST (ModifiedDate AS varchar)

FROM Employee ORDER BY FullName

GO

/* Results

FullName                Age   RowMaintenanceDate

Guy Gilbert             37    Jan  3 2009 10:10AM

Kevin Brown             32    Jan  3 2009 10:10AM

Rob Walters             44    Jan  3 2009 10:10AM

Roberto Tamburello      45    Jan  3 2009 10:10AM

Thierry D’Hers          60    Jan  3 2009 10:10AM

*/

– SQL Server age of Rob Walters on specific dates

– SQL Server string to datetime implicit conversion with DATEADD

SELECT AGE50DATE = DATEADD(YY, 50, ‘19650123′)

GO

– Result: 2015-01-23 00:00:00.000

– SQL Server datetime to string, Italian format for ModifiedDate

– SQL Server string to datetime implicit conversion with DATEDIFF

SELECT FullName,

         AgeDEC31 = DATEDIFF(YEAR, BirthDate, ‘20141231′),

         AgeJAN01 = DATEDIFF(YEAR, BirthDate, ‘20150101′),

         AgeJAN23 = DATEDIFF(YEAR, BirthDate, ‘20150123′),

         AgeJAN24 = DATEDIFF(YEAR, BirthDate, ‘20150124′),

       ModDate = CONVERT(varchar, ModifiedDate, 105)

FROM Employee

WHERE FullName = ‘Rob Walters’

ORDER BY FullName

GO

/* Results

Important Note: age increments on Jan 1 (not as commonly calculated)

FullName    AgeDEC31    AgeJAN01    AgeJAN23    AgeJAN24    ModDate

Rob Walters 49          50          50          50          03-01-2009

*/

————

– SQL combine integer date & time into datetime

————

– Datetime format sql

– SQL stuff

DECLARE @DateTimeAsINT TABLE ( ID int identity(1,1) primary key, 

   DateAsINT int, 

   TimeAsINT int 

) 

– NOTE: leading zeroes in time is for readability only!  

INSERT @DateTimeAsINT (DateAsINT, TimeAsINT) VALUES (20121023, 235959)  

INSERT @DateTimeAsINT (DateAsINT, TimeAsINT) VALUES (20121023, 010204)  

INSERT @DateTimeAsINT (DateAsINT, TimeAsINT) VALUES (20121023, 002350)

INSERT @DateTimeAsINT (DateAsINT, TimeAsINT) VALUES (20121023, 000244)  

INSERT @DateTimeAsINT (DateAsINT, TimeAsINT) VALUES (20121023, 000050)  

INSERT @DateTimeAsINT (DateAsINT, TimeAsINT) VALUES (20121023, 000006)  

SELECT DateAsINT, TimeAsINT,

  CONVERT(datetime, CONVERT(varchar(8), DateAsINT) + ‘ ‘+

  STUFF(STUFF ( RIGHT(REPLICATE(‘0′, 6) + CONVERT(varchar(6), TimeAsINT), 6),

                  3, 0, ‘:’), 6, 0, ‘:’))  AS DateTimeValue

FROM   @DateTimeAsINT 

ORDER BY ID

GO

/* Results

DateAsINT   TimeAsINT   DateTimeValue

20121023    235959      2012-10-23 23:59:59.000

20121023    10204       2012-10-23 01:02:04.000

20121023    2350        2012-10-23 00:23:50.000

20121023    244         2012-10-23 00:02:44.000

20121023    50          2012-10-23 00:00:50.000

20121023    6           2012-10-23 00:00:06.000

*/

————

– SQL Server string to datetime, implicit conversion with assignment

UPDATE Employee SET ModifiedDate = ‘20150123′

WHERE FullName = ‘Rob Walters’

GO

SELECT ModifiedDate FROM Employee WHERE FullName = ‘Rob Walters’

GO

– Result: 2015-01-23 00:00:00.000

/* SQL string date, assemble string date from datetime parts  */

– SQL Server cast string to datetime – sql convert string date

– SQL Server number to varchar conversion

– SQL Server leading zeroes for month and day

– SQL Server right string function

UPDATE Employee SET BirthDate =

      CONVERT(char(4),YEAR(CAST(‘1965-01-23′ as DATETIME)))+

      RIGHT(‘0′+CONVERT(varchar,MONTH(CAST(‘1965-01-23′ as DATETIME))),2)+

      RIGHT(‘0′+CONVERT(varchar,DAY(CAST(‘1965-01-23′ as DATETIME))),2)

      WHERE FullName = ‘Rob Walters’

GO

SELECT BirthDate FROM Employee WHERE FullName = ‘Rob Walters’

GO

– Result: 19650123

– Perform cleanup action

DROP TABLE Employee

– SQL nocount

SET NOCOUNT OFF;

GO

————

————

– sql isdate function

————

USE tempdb;

– sql newid – random sort

SELECT top(3) SalesOrderID,

stringOrderDate = CAST (OrderDate AS varchar)

INTO DateValidation

FROM AdventureWorks.Sales.SalesOrderHeader

ORDER BY NEWID()

GO

SELECT * FROM DateValidation

/* Results

SalesOrderID      stringOrderDate

56720             Oct 26 2003 12:00AM

73737             Jun 25 2004 12:00AM

70573             May 14 2004 12:00AM

*/

– SQL update with top

UPDATE TOP(1) DateValidation

SET stringOrderDate = ‘Apb 29 2004 12:00AM’

GO

– SQL string to datetime fails without validation

SELECT SalesOrderID, OrderDate = CAST (stringOrderDate as datetime)

FROM DateValidation

GO

/* Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1

The conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an

out-of-range value.

*/

– sql isdate – filter for valid dates

SELECT SalesOrderID, OrderDate = CAST (stringOrderDate as datetime)

FROM DateValidation

WHERE ISDATE(stringOrderDate) = 1

GO

/* Results

SalesOrderID      OrderDate

73737             2004-06-25 00:00:00.000

70573             2004-05-14 00:00:00.000

*/

– SQL drop table

DROP TABLE DateValidation

Go

————

– SELECT between two specified dates – assumption TIME part is 00:00:00.000

————

– SQL datetime between

– SQL select between two dates

SELECT EmployeeID, RateChangeDate

FROM AdventureWorks.HumanResources.EmployeePayHistory

WHERE RateChangeDate >= ‘1997-11-01′ AND 

      RateChangeDate < DATEADD(dd,1,‘1998-01-05′)

GO

/* Results

EmployeeID  RateChangeDate

3           1997-12-12 00:00:00.000

4           1998-01-05 00:00:00.000

*/

/* Equivalent to

– SQL datetime range

SELECT EmployeeID, RateChangeDate

FROM AdventureWorks.HumanResources.EmployeePayHistory

WHERE RateChangeDate >= ‘1997-11-01 00:00:00′ AND 

      RateChangeDate <  ‘1998-01-06 00:00:00′

GO

*/

————

– SQL datetime language setting

– SQL Nondeterministic function usage – result varies with language settings

SET LANGUAGE  ‘us_english’;  –– Jan 12 2015 12:00AM 

SELECT US = convert(VARCHAR,convert(DATETIME,‘01/12/2015′));

SET LANGUAGE  ‘British’;     –– Dec  1 2015 12:00AM 

SELECT UK = convert(VARCHAR,convert(DATETIME,‘01/12/2015′));

SET LANGUAGE  ‘German’;      –– Dez  1 2015 12:00AM 

SET LANGUAGE  ‘Deutsch’;     –– Dez  1 2015 12:00AM 

SELECT Germany = convert(VARCHAR,convert(DATETIME,‘01/12/2015′));

SET LANGUAGE  ‘French’;      –– déc  1 2015 12:00AM 

SELECT France = convert(VARCHAR,convert(DATETIME,‘01/12/2015′));

SET LANGUAGE  ‘Spanish’;     –– Dic  1 2015 12:00AM 

SELECT Spain = convert(VARCHAR,convert(DATETIME,‘01/12/2015′));

SET LANGUAGE  ‘Hungarian’;   –– jan 12 2015 12:00AM 

SELECT Hungary = convert(VARCHAR,convert(DATETIME,‘01/12/2015′));

SET LANGUAGE  ‘us_english’;

GO

————

————

– Function for Monday dates calculation

————

USE AdventureWorks2008;

GO

– SQL user-defined function

– SQL scalar function – UDF

CREATE FUNCTION fnMondayDate

               (@Year          INT,

                @Month         INT,

                @MondayOrdinal INT)

RETURNS DATETIME

AS

  BEGIN

    DECLARE  @FirstDayOfMonth CHAR(10),

             @SeedDate        CHAR(10)

    SET @FirstDayOfMonth = convert(VARCHAR,@Year) + ‘-’ + convert(VARCHAR,@Month) + ‘-01′

    SET @SeedDate = ‘1900-01-01′

    RETURN DATEADD(DD,DATEDIFF(DD,@SeedDate,DATEADD(DD,(@MondayOrdinal * 7) - 1,

                  @FirstDayOfMonth)) / 7 * 7,  @SeedDate)

  END

GO

– Test Datetime UDF

– Third Monday in Feb, 2015

SELECT dbo.fnMondayDate(2016,2,3)

– 2015-02-16 00:00:00.000

– First Monday of current month

SELECT dbo.fnMondayDate(Year(getdate()),Month(getdate()),1)

– 2009-02-02 00:00:00.000  

————

reference <http://www.sqlusa.com/bestpractices2005/centurydateformat/>

Here is a quick way to specify the connection command timeout in the connection strings.

Use the property Connect Timeout  and specify a value to it. Here is an example of how this will look like in your application configs in asp.net

<add name=”MyConnString” connectionString=”Server=myserver; Database=mydb; User=sa; Password=mypass; Connect Timeout=20;” />

This is howevre only applicable to Sql Server connection strings.

I have using asp.net controls for a long time and hence seldom need to use the html controls directly on a webpage. However today working on a project where I was emitting the web page (html) in the Page Render method I was emitting the core html controls. There was a need to make the control readonly or disabled as many of us call it more often, including myself. So I used the attribute disabled and added to the input control. Like this

<input type=”text” value=”whatever” name=”control1″ disabled/>

Now this will surely make the control disabled and readonly. However the funny thing is a disabled control doesn’t pass the value in it back to the server on submit. So if you analyse Request.Params["control1"] on postback or submit it will be empty. In order to get the value on postbacks and make the control readonly at the same time use the attribute Readonly instead. This will ensure the textbox retains its values on the submit.

So the correct way to do is

<input type=”text” value=”whatever” name=”control1″ readonly/>

However things are not simple when using the Select control. <SELECT …> does not have a Readonly attribute. The reason is that technically <SELECT …> lists don’t have values… they have selected options, which themselves have values.  So one way is to do the way Claus has suggested here. However the correct way is to display the value in an input tag using the attribute Readonly.

Happy Coding.

Came across this interesting read in one of the articles by Jason Crease where he explains the size of objects in .Net and how the size of a string is determined. Have a read.

Yesterday at work one of my colleques tried to publish a new asp.net application on windows 2003 server on IIS V6.0. The application was a plain ASP.Net 2.0 written in C#. Nothing fancy. To his amazement while the application worked fine locally it always displayed page not found on the server. He bagan troubleshooting and created a test html webpage which he can see on the browser. However still couldn’t see test.aspx.

He tried re-registering asp.net using aspnet_regiis.exe. Restarted the machine, but no still gets Page Not Found on aspx pages. Then he asked me if I have any ideas why this could be happening. I remembered how I once had the same issue while installing an asp.net application on a brand new windows 2003 server. I asked him to check his IIS Web service extensions. Turns out the asp.net was prohibited at web server. Here are the steps that are required to enable asp.net

1. In IIS Manager, click the Web Service Extensions folder
2. In the details pane, select the Web service extension that you want to enable, and then click Allow
3. To see the properties of a Web service extension, select an extension, and then click Properties

Please see the image for more information.

Web Service Extensioins in IIS

There are a lot of powerful logging libraries available for .net. Among them Microsoft Enterprise library logger, nLog and log4net are really popular and easy to use. Developers still try to write their own and customise these available helpers too. However the purpose of this post is how we can use Commons logging implementation to decouple logging library implementation from our application. Using commons logging allow the application to change to a different logging implementation without recompiling code.

Note: that commons logging does not attempt to initialise or terminate the underlying logging implementation that is used at runtime; that is the responsibility of the application. However many popular logging implementations do automatically initialise themselves; in this case an application may be able to avoid containing any code that is specific to the logging implementation used.

Normally we tend to initialise our loggers in the application code directly, thereby creating a code dependency forever unless we decide to remove each line to code. All the existing logging mechanisms do not come with a common interface. However the solution is much easier. And there is an existing .Net library that does the job for us. I found it at sourgeforge.net. Please follow the link below

http://sourceforge.net/projects/netcommon/

It is really easy to use with log4net and common logging solution. Do note that you still need to configure the log4net in your configuration files as you would have normally done and need to also include a new section in your web.config/ appsettings file to direct the Common.Logging API.