If you’re getting error msg 6358 which reads something like 300 is not a valid style number when converting to XML, it’s probably because you’re trying to convert a value to XML, but the style that you’re specifying isn’t supported for conversions to that data type.
It’s not that the conversion can’t happen, it’s just that it can’t happen using the style that you’re specifying.
Continue readingIf you’re getting error Msg 6855 in SQL Server that reads “Inline schema is not supported with FOR XML PATH“, it’s because you’re trying to add an inline schema to an XML document that you’re generating using PATH mode with the FOR XML clause.
As the message alludes to, PATH mode doesn’t support the ability to create an inline schema when using the FOR XML clause.
To fix this issue, either use a different mode to generate the XML with an inline schema (specifically, use either AUTO or RAW mode), or don’t generate an inline schema at all.
If you’re getting SQL Server error Msg 529 that reads something like Explicit conversion from data type int to date is not allowed, it’s because you’re trying to perform an explicit data type conversion that’s not permitted.
SQL Server doesn’t allow certain conversions. If you try to perform such a conversion, you’ll get this error.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, we can use the sp_sequence_get_range stored procedure to generate a range of sequence numbers from a sequence object.
One common use case for sequences in SQL Server is to use them to number the results of a query. For example, we can add a column that has a number that increments with each row, similar to a row counter (but with a sequence that we define).
Continue readingIf you’re getting error msg 220 that reads something like Arithmetic overflow error for data type…, it’s probably because you’re trying to convert a value to a data type that can’t handle that value. For example, trying to convert a number to a smallint but the number’s too big to fit into a smallint.
To fix this issue, make sure you convert the value to a data type that can handle the size of the number that you’re trying to convert.
Continue readingIf you’re using FOR XML in SQL Server to output your query results as XML, you might find yourself in the situation where the XML returned has no root element. Fortunately adding a root element is easy, as I’ll show you in this article.
In SQL Server, we can create sequence objects in order to generate a range of numbers that increment with each call to the sequence.
Although sequences are similar to identity columns, they are different in that they are generated independently of any table. It’s up to the application to generate the next sequence number before inserting it into the table. Therefore, we can apply a sequence to a table in the same way we would insert any other data into a table.
Here are two ways to apply sequence numbers into a table in SQL Server.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, we can use the sys.sequences system catalog view to return a list of sequence objects in the current database.
If you’re getting error Msg 3625 in SQL Server that reads “‘Inline XSD for FOR XML EXPLICIT’ is not yet implemented“, it’s because you’re trying to add an inline schema to an XML document that you’re generating using EXPLICIT mode with the FOR XML clause.
As the message alludes to, SQL Server doesn’t yet support inline XSD schemas when using EXPLICIT mode of the FOR XML clause (at least, not at the time of this writing).
To fix this issue, either use a different mode to generate the XML with an inline schema (specifically, use either AUTO or RAW mode), or don’t generate an inline schema at all (i.e. remove XMLSCHEMA from the query).