If you’ve already added a Database Mail account to a profile, but you now want to change the sequence number, you can do that with the sysmail_update_profileaccount_sp stored procedure.
When doing this, you need to provide the name or ID of both the account and the profile. This is because you need to specify exactly which profile/account association you want to update.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, you can use the SET SHOWPLAN_XML statement to return detailed information about how a T-SQL statement will be executed, in the form of a well-defined XML document.
It’s similar to SHOWPLAN_ALL, except that SHOWPLAN_ALL returns its data set of rows that form a hierarchical tree.
You can set SHOWPLAN_XML to either ON or OFF.
When SHOWPLAN_XML is ON, all subsequent T-SQL statements are not executed. Instead SQL Server returns execution information for the statement (without executing it).
If you get an error telling you that the “The multi-part identifier could not be bound.”, it usually means that you’re prefixing one or more columns with either a table that isn’t included in your query, or an alias that you haven’t actually assigned to a table.
Fortunately, the error message shows you which multi-part identifier is causing the problem.
Continue readingIf you use Azure Data Studio for your database admin tasks, you might be wondering how you can view the execution plan for your queries?
Fortunately, this is easy!
You have the option of viewing:
In SQL Server, you can use the sysmail_help_profileaccount_sp stored procedure on the msdb database to retrieve a list of all associations between accounts and Database Mail profiles.
You can also return account info based on the account name/ID or the profile name/ID.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, you can use the sysmail_help_profile_sp stored procedure on the msdb database to retrieve a list of all Database Mail profiles.
You can also return profile info based on the profile name or ID.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, you can use the sysmail_help_principalprofile_sp stored procedure on the msdb database to retrieve a list of all associations between Database Mail accounts and database principals.
You can also return account info based on the principal name/ID or the profile name/ID.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, you can use the sysmail_help_account_sp stored procedure on the msdb database to retrieve a list of all Database Mail accounts.
You can also return account info based on its account name or ID.
Continue readingYou might be familiar with the ALL option in SQL Server. Perhaps you’ve used it along with the UNION operator to include any duplicates that might be returned in the result set.
But did you know that ALL can also be used in two other contexts?
ALL can be used in the following three contexts:
SELECT clause.UNION clause.Examples of each of these contexts follows.
Continue readingIn SQL Server, the ALL operator can be used with a subquery to compare a scalar value with a single-column set of values returned by the subquery.
It’s also true that the SELECT clause and UNION operator both accept an ALL argument, although this usage has a different purpose (allows duplicates in the result set).
Below are examples of using the ALL operator with a subquery.