In this article, we will be discussing about the following error message: SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack Installation Fails – Element not found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070490). About the Above Exception/Error Message In case you are trying to install a SQL Server 2008 R2 service pack in a clustered SQL Server environment, under … Read more…
SQL Server 2008, among other introduced significant security changes that enhance the database administrators applying an even stricter security policy on the SQL Server instances. This article discusses the security changes in SQL Server 2008. Major Security Changes in SQL Server 2008 Besides the changes in the Windows local groups that are created during … Read more…
This article discusses about Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008 and later. Read below to see how you can work without and how you can work with Grouping Sets in order to understand the benefits of this cool feature. Consider a database table containing sales data. The name of the table is dbo.[sales] Example without using … Read more…
Similarly to my previous post about the DATE data type in SQL Server 2008 and later, another data type, which was originally shipped in SQL Server 2008 is the “TIME” data type. Again, without having to manipulate the current datetime for getting the time, you just have to cast it to the TIME data type. … Read more…
One of the new data types originally shipped with SQL Server 2008 is the “DATE” data type. The DATE data type provides only the date without requiring from the database developers to extract the date from the datetime anymore. To this end you can just get the date with a single line of code: SELECT … Read more…