Offline installation of Microsoft Machine Learning server components SQL 2019 is stuck
Problem You are installing SQL Server 2019 and you get stuck at the Machine Learning Server Components installation step. Your installer could not download the files for whatever reason, it asks you t...
Padding a string in tSQL
Gotcha There isn’t a Pad Left or Pad Right function in tSQL. Solution There is a lengthy discussion about this topic already on Stack Overflow here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16760900...
RedGate SQL Compare – Index was out of range error
Problem This was a weird one because it is clearly a bug in the software. I am running version 13.6.1.7928 Professional of RedGate SQL Compare and I kept getting this error after performing an upgrade...
Incorrect syntax was encountered while parsing :SETVAR
Gotcha When working with SQL CMD mode every now and then I will get this vague error and I can’t figure out what the problem is: A fatal scripting error occurred. Incorrect syntax was encountere...
Avoiding the Red Gate Sql compare “Non-Schema statement was ignored” warning
Gotcha I recently had to create some non-schema related objects for a database project I am working on. It caused an annoying problem with Red Gate SQL Compare where I was prompted each time I did the...
Sql Server REPLACE function makes expression string NULL when replacement string is NULL
Obscure problem This has happened to me before, but naturally I forgot because it has been a while. The scenario is that you have dynamic SQL and you are trying to replace tags in your SQL string with...
How to find the current profile required to send an email in SQL Server
Problem You are trying to send an email using “msdb..sp_send_dbmail” but you keep getting one of the following errors: Msg 14636, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_send_dbmail, Line 107 [Bat...
SQL Server rows appear to not be deleting
The Stupid Problem You are working on a database that you are not very familiar with as a developer – meaning that you are not going to think of every little thing that a DBA would think of righ...