SQLBits Community Conference is on 6th October

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:31:31 GMT

The DDD style of events is really taking off here in the UK. Now the database guys have taken up the mantel and are putting on SQLBits.

Taking place on Saturday Oct 6th the first SQL Community conference (SQLBits - http://www.SQLBits.com) will have 20 sessions in 4 tracks (Business Intelligence, DBA, Development and Katmai) . And even better its totally FREE! Full registration is now open, places are going fast, and there's only room for 350 people only.

To be able attend you need to register on the www.sqlbits.com site and then select the 10 sessions (http://www.sqlbits.com/information/PublicSessions.aspx) you would most like to see. The voting will be used to help decide which sessions are to be run. Over 36 sessions crossing the full SQL Server spectrum have been submitted by speakers and only 20 slots are available, so YOU help to decide the agenda. Once you have selected and saved your selection you will be given the conference registration URL.

To register for SQLBits: http://www.sqlbits.com/information/PublicSessions.aspx I'll be there, hope to see you there!

Cheers

Dave

sql server

SQL Server 2000/2005 Compatibility Bug?

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:31:56 GMT

Had a bit of a frustarting day today with SQL Server 2005! I was upgrading a database from 2000 to 2005 but at the same time stripping out some unwanted procedures, so I was proceeding one at a time ...

I found that I was getting an error message "Invalid Syntax near 'E'". I finally tracked this down to the following syntax not being liked by SQL 2005

... SQL Code ...

IF @@ERROR = 0

RETURN (0)

--Error Handler

Error_Handler:

... Error Loggin SQL Code ...

Yes! I know! You should use BEGIN TRY etc, etc in 2005, but these scripts I'm working on need to run in both 2000 and 2005.

This syntax was fine in 2000, but not in 2005. So ... the fix? Well after 2 hours + scratching my head I found the following worked

... SQL Code ...

IF @@ERROR > 0 GOTO error_handler

RETURN (0)

error_handler:

Don't ask me why ....

Dave Mc

The Next Generation User Group - Dave Mc's Blog: SQL Server

SQLBits Community Conference is on 6th October

SQL Server 2000/2005 Compatibility Bug?