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Count number of rows in stored procedure

October 12, 2012 Leave a comment

              Many a times in our daily life of a SQL development/DBA profile, we have to spend our day across stored procedures, and we need to find out how many rows are there in any stored procedures, especially when we have to do some analysis or while  we have to review any stored procedure for evaluation or estimation, the very first thing which comes in everyone’s thought is, how big is the stored procedures the following are the simple ways to get the approximate number of rows in stored procedure. Read more…

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Finding and removing hidden characters in your data using dynamic T-SQL

October 5, 2012 1 comment

Today I was struggling with one issue which keeps my SSIS package failing in one of the data imports.And came across one of the blog. The problem was a conversion problem from varchar type to float and I kept getting the following error:

Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 1
Error converting data type varchar to float.

However, my data was numeric I checked it many times… or was it really 100% numeric?

Apparently there are some crazy hidden characters that you cannot see when you just glimpse at data. One of the best ways to find out if your data has some non-numeric characters in it is by running a simple query.

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