If you’re trying to use OPENROWSET to run an ad hoc distributed query in SQL Server, but you keep getting an “incorrect syntax” error, and you just can’t see anything wrong with your syntax, it could be that you’re trying to use a variable for one of the arguments.
As mentioned in the title of this post, OPENROWSET does not accept variables for its arguments.
If you’re using variables as arguments, try changing these to string literals.
You can use the T-SQL code below to convert a month number to its corresponding name in SQL Server.
This is for times where you don’t actually have the full date – when all you have is the month number. If you do have the date, then here’s how to get the month name from a date.
If you’ve got a partitioned table in SQL Server, and you now want to run a query that includes the partition number on each row returned by the query, you can use the $PARTITION system function to do just that.
The $PARTITION function returns the partition number into which a set of partitioning column values would be mapped for any specified partition function.
You can therefore use it in your SELECT statement to return the partition that each row belongs to.
If you’ve previously created a linked server, but you now want to update one or more of its server options, you can do that either via the SQL Server Management Studio GUI or with T-SQL.
If you choose to do it with T-SQL, the sp_serveroption system stored procedure is what you need.
In SQL Server, you can use the FORMAT() function to return the short day name from a date. FORMAT() is a T-SQL function that enables you to format dates and numbers to a specified format.
This function returns its result as a string. Specifically, it returns it as either a nvarchar or null as the case may be.
If you’ve encountered error Msg 7411, Level 16 in SQL Server, it’s because you need to enable “RPC out” on the linked server that you’re trying to execute code on.
It’s quite easy to encounter error Msg 214, Level 16 when executing stored procedures such as sp_executesql or sp_describe_first_result_set.
Fortunately it’s easy to fix too!
The most common reason for getting this error is that you forgot to prefix your string with N.
Therefore, to fix this issue, try prefixing your string with N.
Here are three T-SQL functions that you can use to extract the month from a date in SQL Server.