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Ran into a similar issue while restoring the database using SQL server management studio and it got stuck into restoring mode. After several hours of issue tracking, the following query worked for me.

We all know that to select all columns from a table, we can use SELECT * FROM tableA Is there a way to exclude column(s) from a table without specifying all the columns? SELECT * [except columnA]...

7 This answer is a small addition to the highest voted answer and works for SQL Server. The question requested an auto increment primary key, the current answer does add the primary key, but it is not …

Select Coalesce(listing.OfferText, company.OfferText, '') As Offer_Text, from tbl_directorylisting listing Inner Join tbl_companymaster company On listing.company_id= company.company_id But I want to …

I'm trying to determine the best way to truncate or drop extra decimal places in SQL without rounding. For example: declare @value decimal(18,2) set @value = 123.456 This will automatically round @

This was an example, but the point is as Eric said in How can I do an UPDATE statement with JOIN in SQL Server?. You need to add an UPDATE statement at first with the full address of all tables to join …

SQL Server 2017 CU12 also supports this feature. Improvement: Optional replacement for "String or binary data would be truncated" message with extended information in SQL Server 2017 This SQL …

I used GETDATE () as a date to work with, you can replace it with the date which you need. Here's how this works: First we format the date in YYYYMMDD... format truncating to keep just the 6 leftmost …

SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM master.sys.procedures as procs left join master.sys.parameters as params on procs.object_id = params.object_id This seems totally correct, but I keep getting the following …