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SQLMickey | January 13, 2014

Tribal Award Winner for Best New Community Voice

2013 was an amazing year for me and winning this award was the cherry on top. I want to not only thank the people who voted for me, but for the people who nominated me.

Thank You!

I appreciate your belief in me and for accepting me into the SQL Family.

While we can’t all clap together, we can tweet our approval. Please help me recognize the four others who were nominated with me. It’s a big planet, and they have contributed in their countries and abroad to be noticed and nominated too.

Koen Verbeeck (b|t) from Belgium
William Durkin (b|t) from Germany
Rob Sewell (b|t) from United Kingdom
Mark S. Rasmussen (b|t) from Denmark

Very Sincerely,
Mickey Stuewe

Category: Award, Red Gate, Speaking, T-SQL | Tags: Award, Red Gate, Tribal Awards

SQLMickey | January 13, 2014

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I Will Be Speaking This Month for Pragmatics

This month I will be sharing my popular presentation, Scalable SSRS Reports Achieved Through the Powerful Tablix on Pragmatic’s webinar series, “Free Training on the T’s”. I will be going over different ways to use the Tablix control in this one hour presentation and it will be aired live, on 1/23/2014, 11:00 AM EST / 8:00 am PST. Click here to sign up.

Category: Community, Pragmatic's Free Training On The T's, Speaking, SSRS, T-SQL | Tags: Free Training, Pragmatics, Speaking, SSRS, Tablix

SQLMickey | December 31, 2013

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Reflections in the 2013 Mirror

2013 was a wild ride. I had set up my goals in December of 2012 and surpassed some of them half way through the year. I hope that I continue reaching my goals in 2014. If I do, it will be another amazing year.

Here are the goals I had and how I measured up.

Being Mentored

I knew I wanted to be mentored, I even wrote a post about it here. I had no idea how valuable it would turn out to be. After I wrote my post, one of my friends convinced me to ask Grant Fritchey (b|t) if he would mentor me. I really like his speaking style and the topics he speaks on. So, I held my breathe, sent him an email, and he said yes. I couldn’t believe it.

We Skyped all through 2013. Our meetings were very valuable for me. You see, like many people, my confidence isn’t that high, but Grant believes in me. He encouraged me to go after my goals. He critiqued my abstracts and even my first speaking event. This was definitely an achieved goal.

Speaking

This goal I blew out of the water. My goal was to speak at 5 events. I picked this number because there are 5 SQL Saturdays in California where I live. I ended up speaking at 15 different events. I exceeded my goal by 300%! Here is the full list of 2013 events and here is a summary of the events:

6 User Group Meetings
5 SQL Saturdays
3 Women in Technology panels (I moderated 2 at SQL Saturday’s I was already attending, so I didn’t count them in the total count)
2 Red Gate events (You can view one of my sessions here.)
1 Conference (Dev Connections)

I’ve already listed the SQL Saturday’s I plan to apply for. The conferences will be added as I’m accepted as well as the user group meetings. Here is the list of 2014 events so far.

Blogging

My blogging goals were only half met. The first part of my goal was to write on my personal blog (this one) at least once a month. Since I like to participate in the T-SQL Tuesday Blog Parties, I knew this was most likely achievable. The other half of my goal was to write once a month for mssqltips.com. I did not reach this goal at all because there just wasn’t enough time. I was only able to submit one tip this year.

For my person blog, I exceeded my expectations. Since this was my first full year having a blog, I compared the first half of the year with the second half of he year. In that time, I doubled my page views. I had 40 posts for the year, 18 of which were in December, 8 of which were for the T-SQl Blog Party, and 1 was an incredibly fun (and funny) story based on the pictures that Pat Wright (b|t) took at PASS Summit.

Here are the 3 posts that had the most hits this year:

Obtaining a New Job

It took six months of carefully identifying exactly what I wanted to do and going through interviews and talking to recruiters, but this past July I finally took a leap into a new job and I’m glad I did. I miss my former colleagues, but I’ve acquired some pretty cool new ones too.

Friends of Red Gate (ForG)

Red Gate has my absolute favorite tools. They also have some amazing people working for them. This year had the privledge of being part of their Friends of Red Gate program. This program conects various proffesionals who are power users of their products with developers and project managers at Red Gate. We get to disucss new features and how to improve existing features. It’s a wonderful program and I think their product is better for having the program.

Unexpected Surprises

Those were my goals for 2013, but I had some surprises along the way that have shaped me this year and are worth mentioning.

SQL Cruise

In December of 2012 I won a trip (the registration) on Tim Ford’s (b|t) SQL Cruise from SQL Sentry. The cruise was for a week in the Caribbean. Three wonderful days at sea listening to amazing speakers like Kevin Kline (b|t) and Allen White(b|t). And three wonderful days in port. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience and recommend it to ALL of you.

Authoring

Half way through the year, Marlon Ribunal (b|t) approached me and asked if I wanted to help finish the book he was writing on reporting services. I was very honored that he asked me and I said yes. Marlon and I had our book published this past October. It’s called SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints.

I also had the honor of being included in an ebook by Red Gate called 45 Database Performance tips for Developers. I’m very honored to be included in this endeavor with Grant Fritchey (b|t), Jonathan Allen (aka Father Jack) (b|t), Phil Factor (b|t), K. Brian Kelly (b|t), Ike Ellis (b|t), and Louis Davidson (b|t).

Volunteering

I was so impressed with the first SQL Saturday that I ever attended, that I agreed to help out with two local SQL Saturdays (Huntington Beach and San Diego). Since I enjoyed the planning and running around with my head cut off, I’ve agreed to help out again this next year.

I also help the Women In Technology virtual chapter (WIT). I had the honor of moderating three panels this past year, one of which was at PASS Summit in front of 600+ people. You can view the event here.

One of my most proud moments occurred this month, but it really started in September. (You can read the back story here.) I created an event for Jason Strate (b|t) and Bradley Ball (b|t) so that they could speak in Orange County. I had no idea if one person would show up or 100. QuickStart Intelligence hosted the event and they helped find attendees by calling all of their former students. Between my contacts, QuickStart’s former students, and Jason and Bradley’s reputations I was able to get 48 people sign up and around 30 people attend the event. I also found a sponsor for the pizza so it didn’t cost me or any of the attendee’s a dime. I call that a win!

Nominations

I thought that my 2013 SQL year was at a close once December hit, but I was wrong. Red Gate put out a call for nominations for their new Tribal Awards and I was nominated for Best New Community Voice. I wrote about it here. All that I can say about this one, is that I’m pleasantly surprised and that I’m secretly hoping that Koen from Belgium wins.

Thank You

I want to thank all of you for reading my posts this year, for the comments that you leave, and for coming back time and time again. Cheers to you!

Where am I going now?

So what does 2014 hold for me? You’ll have to wait for my next post. (Evil grin inserted here.)

Category: Reflections, Speaking, T-SQL | Tags: #TSQL2sdays, Personal Comments, professinal development, Red Gate, Reflections, Speaking, SQL Saturday, Summit

SQLMickey | December 23, 2013

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Tribal Awards – Nominated For Best New Community Voice

In December Red Gate introduced the Tribal Awards. Some of the awards are fun like “SQL Karaoke Performer of the Year” and others are more serious like “Blog of the Year”. They collected nominations and I found out that I was selected for “Best New Community Voice”. I’m very honored to be included with the other four gentlemen… all from Europe.

Koen Verbeek from Belgium
William Durkin from Germany
Rob Sewell from United Kingdom
Mark S. Rasmussen from Denmark

Now that the nominees have been selected, the community can now vote for the winners of the Tribal Awards, but be quick. The voting ends on January 3rd with the winners being announced on January 7th.

Category: Award, Community, Red Gate, T-SQL | Tags: Award, Red Gate, Tribal Awards

SQLMickey | December 17, 2013

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SQL Advent Calendar – Day 17 – Now, Which Tables Still Need a Trigger?

First Post in this series: SQL Advent Calendar 2013-Day 1- Placeholders in SQL Prompt Snippets

As I was hanging our family Advent Calendar up, I thought I would make one for you, my readers. I’ll be sharing my scripts from two of my favorite products as well as tips on how to create your own.

Oh where, oh where did my trigger go?

On Day 8, Day 9, and Day 10 I wrote about using 4 Change tracking fields in tables. Two of the fields, ModifiedBy and ModifiedDTS are updated in a trigger. If you are slowly making changes to many tables, you can loose track of which tables have the triggers you need.

This little snippet for SQL Prompt, called FindTrig, will get two result sets for you. The first result set is a comma delimited list of tables that have the ModifiedDTS field, but do not have a trigger with the pattern trg__u. The second result set will show you a the same list of tables and the triggers they already have. This will be helpful when the code to update ModifiedBy and ModifiedDTS was added to a different trigger than expected. You definitely don’t want two triggers updating the same two fields. That will cause an infinite loop of updates.

USE <DBName,string, $DBNAME$>
GO
/* ***********************************************************************************
Purpose:    Creates a comma delimited list of tables that may need a trigger to populate
			the ModifiedBy and ModifiedDTS fields
Author:     mstuewe
Date:       12/17/2013
************************************************************************************ */
DECLARE @Tables AS nvarchar(max) 

	SELECT
		@Tables = ISNULL(@Tables + ',', '') + t.name
    FROM
        sys.objects AS t
        JOIN sys.all_columns AS c ON c.object_id = t.object_id
        LEFT JOIN sys.Triggers AS Tr ON tr.name = 'trg_' + t.name + '_iu'
                                                 OR tr.name = 'trg_' + t.name + '_u'
    WHERE
        t.type = 'U'
        AND c.NAME = 'ModifiedDTS'
		AND tr.name IS NULL
	ORDER BY 
		t.name

	IF @Tables IS NULL
		PRINT 'All tables have a trigger.'
	ELSE
	BEGIN
		SELECT @Tables AS TableNames

		SELECT
			t.NAME AS TableName
			,tr.name AS ExistingTrigger
		FROM
			(
			SELECT
				t.object_id
				,t.name
			FROM
				sys.objects AS t
				JOIN sys.all_columns AS c ON c.object_id = t.object_id
				LEFT JOIN sys.Triggers AS Tr ON tr.name = 'trg_' + t.name + '_iu'
														 OR tr.name = 'trg_' + t.name + '_u'
			WHERE
				t.type = 'U'
				AND c.NAME = 'ModifiedDTS'
				AND tr.name IS NULL
			) AS t
			LEFT JOIN sys.Triggers AS Tr ON Tr.parent_id = t.object_id
		ORDER BY 
			t.name
	END
GO

As an example, I created three tables with the four changing tracking fields, Employee, Phone, and PhoneType. I added the trigger to Employee and Phone, but the trigger for Phone had it’s name change. After looking at the results returned, I would know that I only need to create a trigger script for the PhoneType table.

Note: You can download this snippet from my Script Library under Resources. It’s called FindTrig.

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Category: Red Gate, Script, SQL Advent Calendar, T-SQL | Tags: Red Gate, snippet, SQL Advent Calendar, Templates

SQLMickey | December 16, 2013

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SQL Advent Calendar – Day 16 – Snippet For In-Line Table Functions

First Post in this series: SQL Advent Calendar 2013-Day 1- Placeholders in SQL Prompt Snippets

Three French Hens, I mean User Defined Functions

There are three kinds of User Defined Functions that you can create in SQL Server.

Scalar Functions
Multi-line Table Functions
In-Line Table Functions

They all have a purpose but unfortunately the first two listed above are misunderstood and misused the most. Below are a couple of articles on the differences and the performance problems that can be caused by Scalar and Multi-line Table Functions.

Execution Plan for a User Defined Function by Grant Fritchey
Comparing Inline and Multi-Statement Table-Valued Functions by Wayne Sheffield

I created this snippet called NewFun for SQL Prompt when I was first learning the differences between these function types, and I still use to today. Why? It saves key strokes.

USE <DatabaseName, string,$DBNAME$>
GO
--Use Shift + Ctrl + M to set Template Parameters
IF  EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'<schemaowner,string,dbo>.<sprocname,string,>') AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT'))
DROP FUNCTION <schemaowner,string,dbo>.<sprocname,string,>
GO
/* ***********************************************************************************
Purpose:    [Brief Description]
Notes:      
Sample:    
            EXEC <schemaowner,string,dbo>.<sprocname,string,> [Parameters]
Author:     $USER$
Date:       $DATE$

Revision History
(Change Date)	(Author)		(Description of Change)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
************************************************************************************ */
CREATE FUNCTION <schemaowner,string,dbo>.<sprocname,string,>
(
	--Insert Parameters
)
RETURNS Table
AS 

	RETURN 
	(
		$CURSOR$
	)

GO

Note: You can download this snippet from my Script Library under Resources. It’s called NewFun.

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Category: Red Gate, Script, SQL Advent Calendar, T-SQL | Tags: Red Gate, snippet, SQL Advent Calendar, SQL Prompt, Templates

SQLMickey | December 15, 2013

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SQL Advent Calendar Day -15 – Naming Default Constraints

First Post in this series: SQL Advent Calendar 2013-Day 1- Placeholders in SQL Prompt Snippets

Standardization

I truly believe in having coding standards. I think the best standards that a team can have, are the ones that they are willing to adhere to. If no one agrees that commas belong on the left rather than the right, then why does your standards say they have to be on the left?

One standard that I really like to have, and is supper easy to do using macros, is having decent names for indexes and constraints. DF_Mytable_1837489274 does absolutely nothing for me. But DF_Mytable_isActive, is helpful when looking at all the constraints on my table.

ER Studio DA has three macros to help with these naming standards. Name foreign Key Constraints, Name Primary Key Constraints, and Index Naming. When creating default constraints in ER Studio Data Architect ( ER Studio DA), I found that I was getting random numbers on my default names in SQL Server. This was especially true if I created my defaults from Domains. (Domains are templates for fields. I wrote about Domains here.)So I created an additional macro called Name Default Constraints-Selected to round out this collection of macros.

My particular standard for naming defaults is as follows: DF__. If you have different standards that can be derived from information in the field, then you can change the pattern on line 42. Take a look at lines 36 and 37 too. These two lines are necessary when working with Domains. They make it possible to edit the default name for a field that is tied to a domain.

This macro will perform two different actions. It will create a name for defaults that don’t have one, and it will ask the user if they want to change a name that does not adhere to the standards. After the macro has completed, a dialog box is displayed showing how many defaults were named and how many had their name updated.

'----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' PURPOSE:  	This macro will create and update Default Constraint names on
'				Attributes For All selected Entities. If the attribute is
'				bound, it will overwrite the bound default and name the default.
' Author:   	Mickey Stuewe
' Date:     	12/15/2013
'----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option Explicit

Sub Main

	Dim objModel As Model
	Dim objSubModel As SubModel
	Dim objSelObject As SelectedObject
	Dim objAttrib As AttributeObj
	Dim objEntity As Entity
	Dim iCounter As Integer
	Dim iNCcounter As Integer
	Dim iunBoundCounter As Integer
	Dim strDefaultName As String

	Set objModel = DiagramManager.ActiveDiagram.ActiveModel
	Set objSubModel = objModel.ActiveSubModel

	If Not objModel.Logical Then

		' Iterate through all the selected objects in the current
		' model.
		For Each objSelObject In objSubModel.SelectedObjects
			If objSelObject.Type = 1 Then  'Entities
				Set objEntity = objModel.Entities.Item(objSelObject.ID)
				For Each objAttrib In objEntity.Attributes
					If Len(objAttrib.DeclaredDefault) > 0 Then
						'if the attribute default is bound, then unbind it so that it can be named.
						If objAttrib.DomainId > 0 Then
							'You have to override the bound default value and the default text (name).
							objAttrib.EnableOverride (1,True)
							objAttrib.EnableOverride (2,True)
							iunBoundCounter = iunBoundCounter + 1
						End If

						strDefaultName = "DF_" & objEntity.EntityName & "_" & objAttrib.AttributeName
						If Len(objAttrib.DefaultName) = 0 Then
							objAttrib.DefaultName = strDefaultName
							iCounter = iCounter + 1
						ElseIf objAttrib.DefaultName <> strDefaultName Then
							If MsgBox("The name of the Default Constraint does not match our naming standards. Would you like to replace it?" & vbCrLf & _
								vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Attribute: " & objAttrib.AttributeName & " - Default Name: " & objAttrib.DefaultName & " - Value: " & _
								objAttrib.DeclaredDefault & vbCrLf & " Standardized Name: " & strDefaultName, _
								vbYesNo + vbQuestion, "Stadardize Name?") = vbYes Then
									objAttrib.DefaultName = strDefaultName
									iCounter = iCounter + 1
							End If
						End If
					Else
						iNCcounter = iNCcounter + 1
					End If
				Next objAttrib
			End If
		Next objSelObject

		MsgBox iunBoundCounter & " had their defaults unbound so that they could be named." & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
				iCounter & " Default Constraints had their name created or updated." & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
				iNCcounter & " Attributes were not modified.", vbOkOnly + vbInformation, "Default Constraint Name(s) Created or Updated"

	Else
		MsgBox "You are in a Logical model. Move to a Physical model to name of Default Constraints.", vbOkOnly + vbCritical, "Need Physical Model"
	End If
End Sub

Note: You can download this macro from my Script Library under Resources. It’s called Name Default Constraints – Selected.

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Category: Database Modeling, ER/Studio Data Architect, Macros, Script, SQL Advent Calendar, T-SQL | Tags: Embarcadero, ER/Studio Data Architect, macro, SQL Advent Calendar, Templates

SQLMickey | December 14, 2013

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SQL Advent Calendar – Day 14 – Working With Forms in a Macro in ER Studio Data Architect

First Post in this series: SQL Advent Calendar 2013-Day 1- Placeholders in SQL Prompt Snippets

Creating a Form

One of the options that you have when creating a macro in ER Studio Data Architect (ER Studio DA), is the ability to create a form known as a dialog. The form can gather information for the macro to use, display information to the user after an action has been performed, or interact with the user while the objects in the diagram are updated.

There are three steps to perform when setting up a form.

Creating the layout of the form, including placing the controls on the form.
Writing the code to pre-populate the controls.
Writing the code to perform actions after the dialog is used by the user.

Don’t recreate the wheel

ER Studio DA comes with quite a few working macros. They provide great examples on how to work with the objects and how to work with forms. I would recommend looking at the Definition Editor macro and the Index Naming macro. They both have highly interactive forms which show how to work with the different controls and how to interact with the events of the controls.

Note: While the objects representing the various aspects of the data model are well documented, I have yet to find documentation on the dialog object or the controls that are placed on it. I do admit, I have not tried contacting Embarcadero as of yet either.

Let’s look at the code from the Definition Editor macro. The first line below begins the definition of the form followed by a list of controls that will appear on the form. The order they are listed will be the sequential order of the controls if you TAB through them. Below I numbered a few areas to look at.

The first two numbers are the height and width of the form followed by the name that will appear in the title bar.
The last parameter contains the name of the Sub that you would need to write to consume any actions generated by the form. (e.g. When you click the OK button, the MyDialogFunc procedure would be triggered.)
At the end of controls that will cause an event, such as when a button is pushed, you will find a name preceded by a period. This is not a procedure name like we saw with #2 above. This will be the keyword you search for in the MyDialogFunc. We’ll see this in a minute.
After the definition of the form is created, a variable is created to represent the form during its life.
Next the controls that need to be initialized and pre-populated are coded.
And Finally the call to the form is called which will display the form to the user.

You can manually create and modify the form, or you can use the Editor User Dialog button on the toolbar. Make sure your cursor is in the middle of the code for the form, or you will create another form.

When the myDialogFunc procedure is created, it requires three parameters.

DlgItem is the name of the control that caused an event, which caused the MyDialogFunc to be called.
Action is the action of the event. (e.g. A button was pushed.)
SuppValue contains the data of the DlgItem.

If you were to capture the pushbutton event for the UpdateTable, you would create an If statement to look at the DlgItem value when Action = 2.

There are some other functions that are needed while working the controls. In the screenshot below, you can see DlgValue and DlogText. These allow you to get information from other controls on the form. There are others that you look at in other macros as well.

Can’t leave it alone

I really like this macro, but there was one issue. I use schemas (called owners in ER Studio DA), and I wanted them to be displayed with the table names… So I modified the code.

The first thing I did was to widen the list boxes. I like long names and they just didn’t fit. I used the User Dialog Editor to accomplish this.

The second thing I did, was add MyEntity.Owner to the name of the tables. This was done in the procedure called getTables.

Note: Tables are referenced differently in the logical model than the physical model. Make sure you are checking to see if the user executed the macro from the logical or physical model and then use the correct object.

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Category: Database Modeling, ER/Studio Data Architect, Macros, Script, SQL Advent Calendar, T-SQL | Tags: Database Modeling, Embarcadero, ER/Studio Data Architect, macro, SQL Advent Calendar

SQLMickey | December 13, 2013

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SQL Advent Calendar – Day 13 – Snippet for New Transactional Procedure

First Post in this series: SQL Advent Calendar 2013-Day 1- Placeholders in SQL Prompt Snippets

Begin Transaction

Two days ago, I shared my snippet to create a shell for new procedures. A week ago, I found I was writing quite a few update and insert procedures, so I created this new template called new_iu.

The procedures I’m creating are called by an application, so the template I created provides the following:

Begin and End Tran
Rollback in the error handler
Return statement. (0 is successful, anything else is a failure)
An output parameter that returns the number of rows changed. We needed this, because more that one kind of row was updated or inserted, but we only want to count the “main” units.

USE <DatabaseName, string,$DBNAME$>
GO

--Use Shift + Ctrl + M to set Template Parameters

IF EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE	object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'<schemaowner,string,dbo>.<sprocname,string,>') AND type IN (N'P', N'PC') ) 
	DROP PROCEDURE <schemaowner,string,dbo>.<sprocname,string,>
GO
/* ***********************************************************************************
Purpose:    <purpose,string,[brief description]="">
Notes:      
Sample:    
            DECLARE @RV as int, @RecordsAffected as int
			EXEC @RV = <schemaowner,string,dbo>.<sprocname,string,> [Parameters],@RecordsAffected OUTPUT
			SELECT @RV as ReturnValue, @RecordsAffected as RecordsAffected
Author:     $USER$
Date:       $DATE$

Revision History
(Change Date)	(Author)		(Description of Change)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
************************************************************************************ */
CREATE PROCEDURE <schemaowner,string,dbo>.<sprocname,string,> 
(
	--Insert Parameters
	,@RecordsAffected AS int OUTPUT
)
AS 
BEGIN TRY
	SET NOCOUNT ON
----------------------------------------------------
-------           Test Parameters           --------
----------------------------------------------------
--DECLARE
--    @StartDate AS date = '12/1/2010'
--   ,@EndDate AS date = '12/5/2010'
--   ,@RecordsAffected AS int --OUTPUT
----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------
	BEGIN TRAN

		$CURSOR$--[TSQL Statements]

	COMMIT TRAN

END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
	DECLARE
		@ErrorMessage AS nvarchar(3000)
	   ,@ErrorSeverity AS int

	IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
	BEGIN
        ROLLBACK TRAN
		SET @RecordsAffected = 0
	END 

	SET @ErrorMessage = ISNULL(DB_NAME(DB_ID()) + N'.' + SCHEMA_NAME(SCHEMA_ID()) + N'.' + OBJECT_NAME(@@PROCID, DB_ID()),
						N'SQL Object Name Not Available') + N': Error: ' + CONVERT(nvarchar(10), ERROR_NUMBER()) + N' Line: ' + CONVERT(nvarchar(5), ERROR_LINE()) + N' - '
						+ ERROR_MESSAGE()    
	SET @ErrorSeverity = ERROR_SEVERITY()
	RAISERROR(@ErrorMessage, @ErrorSeverity, 1)

	RETURN 1

END CATCH

SET NOCOUNT OFF
RETURN 0
GO

Commit Transaction

If you have other successful ways to write insert, update, or delete stored procedures, please share in the comments.

Note: You can download this snippet from my Script Library under Resources. It’s called New_IU.

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Category: Red Gate, Script, SQL Advent Calendar, T-SQL | Tags: Red Gate, snippet, SQL Advent Calendar, SQL Prompt, SQL Script, Templates

SQLMickey | December 12, 2013

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SQL Advent Calendar – Day 12 – And Neo Yelled

First Post in this series: SQL Advent Calendar 2013-Day 1- Placeholders in SQL Prompt Snippets

A Needed Siesta

We are half way to Christmas. Can you believe it? Writing this blog series has been great for me, but tonight I’m tired. So with that, I’m going to share some of the Snippets that come with SQL Prompt.

The first two are fun ones. Type Neo + TAB and Yell + TAB and see what you get. They always make me feel better.

If you really want to get into snippets, you can really save on the keep strokes with the following.

ssf	SELECT * FROM
st100	SELECT TOP 100 * FROM
cj	CROSS JOIN
ij	INNER JOIN
ob	ORDER BY
gb	GROUP BY

What other quick strokes do you think should be added?

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