Home of the AlmostImplementedException
2 03 2014
Today we will make a short trip to the world of Oracle. In my current project I have to do a lot with a Oracle database and some days ago I had to programmatically fill a table based on a predefined sequence for primary key. Sound simple, right? This sequence has an increment by 1000 […]
14 05 2013
Sometimes you will have the problem that you execute a long, time consuming query, e.g. in a stored procedure. In our case we’ve got a maintanance plan that executes a stored procedure to generate statistics everey day. But for this we will the following error on execution: “The query has been canceled because the estimated […]
14 05 2013
When you do calculations in your database, you sometimes have to deal with null and 0 (zero) values. This can lead to Divide-By-Zero errors or null-results. To prevent them we can use ISNULL and/or NULLIF. Lets start with ISNULL. This simple fellow just needs two parameters. First the value to check and second the resulting […]
9 04 2013
Sometimes it is necessary to find out which tables are consuming the most space in your database. especially when you run your database for a couple of years. In our case we’ve got an ERP database which holds orders, position, customers, machine controls, print data, … So we need to find table that are predestined […]