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MS SQL ServerHow-To’s

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Contents

1) How to display Year as YYYY instead of YY

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2) How to Build a Comma Delimited String from Table values

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3) How to write values to a Text file

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4) How to add a User Defined Error Message

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5) How to get the Rowcount as well as Error at the same time

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6) How to start SQLServer in Single User Mode

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7) How to start SQL Server in Minimal Configuration Mode

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8) How to get Output parameter value from Dynamic execution of a Query

9) How to move Database/Transaction Log files

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10) How to Rename a Database

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11) How to move Master Database

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12) How to Rename a Server

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13) How to detect & rectify Orphaned Users in a Database

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14) How to use a Stored procedure as a Derived Table

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15) How to Generate Serial Numbers in a Query

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16) How to Rename a Table

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17) How to Rename a Table Column

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18) How to Rename a Primary Key

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19) How to Rename a Foreign Key

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20) How to Rename a Default

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1) How to display Year as YYYY instead of YY

Enterprise Manager adopts the User's regional settings for thedate format. By default, the regional setting for the short dateformat is m/d/yy. To display it in m/d/yyyy format, follow thefollowing steps:On the taskbar, click the Start button, point to Settings andthen select Control Panel. In the Control Panel dialog boxdouble-click Regional Settings. In the Regional SettingsProperties dialog box, select the Date tab. Next, change thevalue for the Short Date Style from M/d/yy to M/d/yyyy.

2) How to Build a Comma Delimited String from Tablevalues

Sometimes you might want to return your records in a singlecomma delimited string. For example, if you have records like :-MangoBananaPeachGrapesStrawberryInstead of returning it as a recordset containing these 5records, you might want to return them as 'Mango, Banana, Peach,Grapes, Strawberry'. Here's how you can accomplish this.-- Create a temporary table & insert dummy recordsCreate Table #Fruits (Fruit Varchar(25))Insert #Fruits (Fruit) values('Mango')Insert #Fruits (Fruit) values('Banana')Insert #Fruits (Fruit) values('Peach')Insert #Fruits (Fruit) values('Grapes')Insert #Fruits (Fruit) values('Strawberry')-- Build comma delimited stringDeclare @Fruits Varchar(200)Set @Fruits = ''