What’s New in

SYBASE SQL Server™

Release 10.0?

SYBASE SQL Server Release 10.0

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Change Level: 2
Last Revised: June 17, 1994
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 Table of Contents
1. New Features in SQL Server Release 10.0
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
New Installation and Upgrade Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Addition to System Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Benefits of Moving System Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
The Upgrade Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Backup/Space Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Backup Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Installing a Backup Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Additional Sources of Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Threshold Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Variables Allowed in Dump and Load Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
New Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
System Administration Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
User Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Cursors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Data Definition Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Integrity Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Changes to Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
Schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
Datatypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
Automatic Sequential Values Using the IDENTITY Property . . . . . . . . . 1-11
Automatic Creation of IDENTITY Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
Transactions, Triggers, and Stored Procedures Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
Data Definition Language in Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
Transaction State Information: @@transtate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13
New rollback trigger Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13
Trigger Self-Recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13
Stored Procedure Size Limits Removed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13
Query/Data Modification Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
Datatype Conversion Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
New Hex Conversion Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
Subquery Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
Grouping on bit Columns Allowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15
Random Number Generator Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15

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between Predicate Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15

select into Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15
Column Alias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15
Full Dynamic SQL/Precompiler Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15
Right Truncation of Character Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15
ANSI Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16
set Commands Required for ANSI Compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16
FIPS Flagger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-17
SQLSTATE Messages and Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-17
The escape Clause in the like Predicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-17
ANSI-Style Comments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-17
Changes to set Options arithabort and arithignore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-18
Synonymous Keywords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-18
Chained Transactions and Isolation Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-19
Delimited Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-19
Treatment of Nulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20
Right Truncation of Character Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20
Permissions Required for update and delete Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20
Enhancements to Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20
grant with grant option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21
Granting to Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21
Configurable Packet Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21
Chargeback Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21
New dbcc Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-22
kill Command Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-22
shutdown Command Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-22
tempdb Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-22
Additional Information on Space Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-23
Error Handling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-23
create index Performance Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-23
Improvements to the Query Optimizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-24
Bulk Copy Performance Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-24
Spanish Collating Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-24
Document Reorganization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-25
Summary by Command Name, Type, Tables Affected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-25
set Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-25
New and Changed Built-In Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-27
New System Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-28
Changes to System Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-30

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New Configuration Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-30

New Database Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-31
New System Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-32
Changes to Existing System Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-33

2. Changes That May Affect Existing Applications

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
New Transact-SQL Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Password Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Addition of sybsystemprocs Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Changing Permissions on System Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Moving Your Own Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Changing References to master’s System Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Checking for the Existence of Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Configuring Open Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Changing Backup and dbcc Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Changes in Master Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Remote Access and the Backup Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Changes to Dump Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Changes to Renaming Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Datatype and Conversion Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Display Format Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Default Type Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Datatype Hierarchy Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Overflow Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Floating Point-to-Character Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Numeric-to-Numeric Conversions Requiring Truncation . . . . . . . . 2-11
Integer-to-Character Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Changes to Conversion Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Change to between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
ANSI-Style Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
ANSI-Compliant Permissions Requirements for update and delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
ANSI-Compliant Treatment of Nulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Switching to Chained Transaction Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Using Roles in SQL Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Repeated Table Names in from Clauses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Column Names Required for select into with Expressions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Changes to Correlation Name Handling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

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Subquery Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Subqueries Using not in with NULL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
in and any Subqueries Using or. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
> all and < all When the Subquery Matches No Rows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
Correlated Subqueries Suppressing Duplicates from Outer Query . . . 2-21
Aggregate Queries with exists Subqueries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22
Correlated Subqueries Using distinct and the in Predicate . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

3. Changes in SQL Server Releases 4.8, 4.9, and 4.9.1

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Summary of Changes, SQL Server Release 4.8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Fast create database for Database Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
union Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
New “Not Equals” Operator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
New Datatypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Quoted Strings in Column Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
International Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
System Tables for Alternate Language Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
New Utility Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Changed Utility Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
New Transact-SQL set Command Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Configuration Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
New Global Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
New System Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Changed System Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Alternate Sort Order Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Symmetric Multiprocessor Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Changes to System Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
New Built-In Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Changes to Error Log Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
New Configuration Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Summary of Changes, SQL Server Release 4.9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Multibyte Character Set Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Character Set Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Changing Sort Orders and Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
New Datatypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
New System Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Enhancements to print and raiserror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Changed String Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6

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New Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6

New Global Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Configuration Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
New System Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
dbcc Command Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Summary of Changes, SQL Server Release 4.9.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
dbcc Command Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
New System Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Configuration Variable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Index

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 List of Tables
Table 1-1: set Options for ANSI Compliance .............................................................................1-16
Table 1-2: ANSI-Compatible Keyword Synonyms ...................................................................1-18
Table 1-3: New set Options...........................................................................................................1-25
Table 1-4: New and Changed Built-In Functions......................................................................1-27
Table 1-5: New System Procedures .............................................................................................1-28
Table 1-6: Chargeback Accounting System Procedures ...........................................................1-29
Table 1-7: Changes to System Procedures..................................................................................1-30
Table 1-8: New Configuration Options ......................................................................................1-30
Table 1-9: New sp_dboption Database Options ..........................................................................1-31
Table 1-10: Changes to Existing System Tables ...........................................................................1-33
Table 2-1: New Reserved Words....................................................................................................2-2
Table 2-2: Changes in Output Using Numeric Literals..............................................................2-9
Table 2-3: Changes to Datatype Hierarchy ................................................................................2-10
Table 2-4: New Type Conversion Error Messages ....................................................................2-12
Table 2-5: ANSI Permissions for update and delete .....................................................................2-13

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1 1. New Features in
SQL Server Release 10.0

Introduction
This chapter describes the new features for SYBASE SQL Server™
Release 10.0. These new features include:
• New Installation, Upgrade and Configuration Utility
• Addition to System Databases
• Backup/Space Management
• New Security Features
• Cursors
• Data Definition Enhancements
• Trigger, Transaction, and Stored Procedure Changes
• Query/Data Modification Changes
• ANSI Compliance Changes
• System Administration Changes
• Error Handling
• create index Performance Enhancements
• Query Optimizer Enhancements
• Bulk Copy Performance Enhancements
• Spanish Language Sort Orders
• Document Reorganization
The last section of this chapter provides a summary of changes to the
following commands and system tables:
• set Options
• New and Changed Built-In Functions
• New and Changed System Procedures
• New Configuration Options
• New Database Options
• New System Tables
• Changes to System Tables

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New Installation and Upgrade Utility

A new installation program, sybinit, provides a flexible menu-driven
tool for managing configuration of SQL Server and Backup Server. It
can be used interactively, or with a resource file if you need to install
or upgrade many servers.
sybinit allows you to:
• Install a new Release 10.0 SQL Server or Backup Server
• Upgrade an existing SQL Server from a 4.8 or later release to
Release 10.0
• Modify an existing 10.0 SQL Server to install and activate
auditing
• Install languages and character sets
• Configure your default language, sort order or character set
• Install other Sybase System 10™ products
It also helps manage your system’s interfaces file, providing a
convenient tool for adding, deleting or changing interfaces file
entries.
See your SYBASE SQL Server Installation Guide for information on
running sybinit.

Addition to System Databases

Release 10.0 provides many new features, including more than 25
new system procedures. In addition, the Catalog Stored procedures
(formerly installed separately) are now included in the default
installation procedures. The space requirements for the new system
tables and system procedures would nearly double the size
requirement for the master database. Since master must reside entirely
on a single device, many customers would face serious problems (in
some cases requiring disk repartitioning and moving master).
Release 10.0 solves this problem by removing the largest space users
from master in a way that is transparent to ordinary users of SQL
Server and requires a minimum of work for the System
Administrator who upgrades SQL Server.
In Release 10.0, the SYBASE system procedures are stored in a new
database called sybsystemprocs, rather than in the master database.
When your installation or upgrade is complete, Sybase system
procedures reside in the new database. Special search routines for

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executing any procedure name beginning with “sp_” allow SQL

Server to locate the system procedures, even if the procedure call is
fully qualified with the database name “master”. For example,
master..sp_who finds the procedure.

Benefits of Moving System Procedures

The new structure provides several benefits:

• It shrinks the space used in master dramatically. The size of the
master database will not have to change for a long time.
• It creates greater flexibility for users. Users are able to store larger
numbers of local stored procedures in sybsystemprocs without
worrying about space considerations on the master device.
• It can speed recovery of the master database. Under the pre-10.0
structure, if the master device was damaged, a significant portion
of recovery time involved the re-creation of the system
procedures. Now, if the system procedures are on a separate
database device, master can be recovered much more quickly.
• The new sybsystemprocs database can be restored quickly and
easily in case of disk failure without affecting the master database.
• The sybsystemprocs database can safely use an operating system
file, if necessary, as a database device. It will be updated rarely
and can be easily restored.
• It keeps backups of master smaller. Due to system restrictions,
backups of master must fit on a single tape or file.

The Upgrade Process

When you upgrade an existing SQL Server or install a new SQL

Server, you specify the device where you want to install
sybsystemprocs. sybinit creates the device. For upgrades, it drops all
existing SYBASE system procedures from master without affecting any
user-created procedures stored in master.
If necessary, the upgrade processes increases the number of open
databases allowed on your SQL Server.
See Chapter 2 of this manual for information on moving your local
procedures from master to sybsystemprocs, and other system
administration information relating to this change.

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Backup/Space Management

Backup Server

The Open Server-based Backup Server utility now handles all dumps
and loads for SQL Server. Dumps and loads now work more quickly,
with significantly less effect on other SQL Server activities. New
dump and load syntax provides more flexibility and more options:
• Dump striping allows you to use up to 32 dump devices in
parallel to dump or load a single database or transaction log.
• Multi-file/multi-volume dumps allow one dump to span
multiple tapes, or allow multiple dumps to be made to a single
tape.
• Network dumps allow dumping and loading over the network to
or from a device on another machine.
• Backup Server complies with ANSI standard tape labelling and
handling.
• Platform-specific tape handling options support dump/load
command syntax specification for volume naming, dismount and
load control, tape density, block size, tape capacity, days to retain,
initialization, file naming for multi-dump volumes, and listing
header or file information instead of loading the files.
• The system procedure sp_volchanged signals volume changes
during backups. (OpenVMS users do this with the REPLY
command.) It replaces the console utility program. sp_volchanged
can be submitted from any ordinary SYBASE client to signal
volume changes to the Backup Server.
• Multiple dumps and loads can be managed from one or more
local or remote servers.

Installing a Backup Server

If you do not want to use the new functionality immediately, you can
continue to use your existing dump and load routines. Pre-10.0
syntax is compatible with 10.0 syntax. The only exception is that dump
database and dump transaction commands cannot be included in a
user-defined transaction in Release 10.0.
Dump and load commands must use Backup Server. It must be
installed and running, and SQL Server must be configured to connect
to Backup Server.

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◆ WARNING!
You cannot load dumps made with earlier releases using 10.0 dump and
load commands: pre-10.0 dumps are not compatible with 10.0 SQL
Server.

The SYBASE SQL Server Installation Guide contains information about

installing Backup Servers, and the System Administration Guide
Supplement for your platform contains information on supported
dump devices and information about platform-specific issues.

Additional Sources of Information

The new syntax for the dump database, load database, dump transaction, and
load transaction commands is documented in Volume 1 of the SQL
Server Reference Manual. sp_volchanged is documented in Volume 2 of
the SQL Server Reference Manual.
Information about starting and stopping Backup Servers during
routine operations can be found in startserver in the SQL Server Utility
Programs for your operating system, shutdown in Volume 1 of the SQL
Server Reference Manual, and your System Administration Guide
Supplement. See backupserver in the SQL Server Utility Programs for
information about flags for the backupserver executable.
See Chapter 7, ‘‘Developing a Backup and Recovery Plan’’, in the
System Administration Guide, for a complete discussion of Backup
Server.

Threshold Manager

Thresholds monitor how much free space remains on a particular

segment. When the amount of free space falls below a threshold, SQL
Server automatically executes the associated stored procedure. For
example:
• You can create a threshold and stored procedure to dump the
transaction log when space runs low.
• You can create a threshold and a stored procedure that detects
when space for the data segment of a database runs low, so that
messages in the error log warn you before space runs out.
The system procedures sp_addthreshold, sp_dropthreshold,
sp_modifythreshold and sp_helpthreshold create, drop, change and monitor
free space thresholds in a database. See Volume 2 of the SQL Server

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Reference Manual for specific syntax information. Chapter 10,

‘‘Managing Free Space with Thresholds’’, in the System
Administration Guide provides additional examples.
In databases that store data and logs on separate segments, SQL
Server now installs a last-chance threshold on the log segment. This
threshold calls a procedure named sp_thresholdaction. You can use
sp_modifythreshold to call a different stored procedure instead of
sp_thresholdaction.
Since user requirements for threshold procedures vary so widely,
Sybase does not provide sp_thresholdaction; you must write it yourself.
A special system function, lct_admin, creates last-chance thresholds on
databases created under pre-10.0 SQL Servers.
The new abort tran on log full option for sp_dboption allows you to choose
whether to suspend or kill processes that attempt to write to the log
when there is not enough log space.
See sp_addthreshold, sp_dboption, and Chapter 10, ‘‘Managing Free
Space with Thresholds’’, of the System Administration Guide for
examples.

Variables Allowed in Dump and Load Commands

As part of the Release 10.0 threshold improvements, you can now
use parameters or variables in dump and load commands for
database and device names. This allows a single stored procedure
(such as sp_thresholdaction) to dump multiple databases or transaction
logs. See dump database, dump transaction, load database and load transaction
in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual.

New Security Features

SQL Server Release 10.0 provides features targeted at the C2 level of
trust. Many of the security features provide new flexibility for SQL
Server users who do not need all of the C2 functionality. The major
features are:
• New system administration roles
• New user identification and authentication features, including
password encryption
• A complete system for auditing activity on SQL Server

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System Administration Roles

In previous releases, SQL Server allowed only one login, “sa”, to

perform most system administration tasks. SQL Server Release 10.0
recognizes the following security-related operational and
administrative roles:
• System Administrator: required for tasks such as manipulating
disk space and memory usage, granting and revoking permission
to execute create database statements, running diagnostic and
repair functions that read data pages or recover data or indexes in
a controlled manner, granting and revoking the System
Administrator role, and modifying, dropping, and locking server
login accounts.
• System Security Officer: required for security-related tasks such
as creating server login accounts, changing passwords, granting
and revoking roles, configuring the password expiration interval,
and managing the audit system.
• Operator: used for backing up and restoring databases.
These roles can be granted to and revoked from individual login
accounts in SQL Server, and a login account may possess more than
one role. Roles can be granted permissions on objects and
commands, similar to groups. Details on roles can be found in
Chapter 2, ‘‘Roles in SQL Server’’, in the System Administration Guide.
When Release 10.0 of SQL Server is installed, it still has the default
“sa” account, which has System Administrator, System Security
Officer, and Operator roles enabled. For greater accountability for the
highly privileged users in your system, it is recommended that you
create individual login accounts for users who are to be granted these
privileges, grant them their roles, and then lock the “sa” account. If
you have automated scripts or programs that log into SQL Server as
“sa”, see ‘‘Using Roles in SQL Server’’ on page 2-14 for more
information.

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User Identification

There are now a variety of mechanisms SQL Server uses to positively

identify an individual user and to enforce accountability and
security, such as:
• Login account locking makes it possible to lock a user’s account
without dropping the user and the user’s objects from all
databases.
• A minimum password length of 6 bytes makes passwords more
secure. (This does not affect existing user passwords, but all new
or changed passwords must be at least 6 bytes.).
• Passwords are stored in master..syslogins in encrypted form.
• You can enable optional system-wide password expiration.
• You can enable optional client-side password encryption.
• Recovery mechanisms are provided in the case of lost or expired
passwords.
New sections in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual called
“Roles” and “Login Management” provide an overview of the
system procedures and other commands used to manage these
features.

Auditing

SQL Server can be configured to provide an audit trail for events

such as:
• Server logins and logouts
• Use of any commands that require a special role
• Use of commands that reference a specified object or database
• Deletion of objects
• Execution of stored procedures and triggers
• Any actions performed by a specified user
The audit system includes a new database, sybsecurity, which
contains the audit trail in a system table called sysaudits. Auditing is
described in Chapter 16, ‘‘Auditing’’, in the System Administration
Guide.

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Cursors
SQL Server Release 10.0 provides full support for cursors. The
following cursor commands are documented in Volume 1 of the SQL
Server Reference Manual:
declare cursor
fetch
open
close
deallocate
A new topic called “Cursors” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference
Manual provides an overview of cursors. New keywords that allow
updating and deleting at cursor positions are described on the delete
and update pages. A new set option controls the number of rows
returned by a fetch command. A new system procedure, sp_cursorinfo,
provides information about the active cursors in a database.
Chapter 15, ‘‘Cursors: Accessing Data Row by Row’’, in the
Transact-SQL User’s Guide provides examples of cursor use, including
cursors in stored procedures.

Data Definition Enhancements

Integrity Constraints

In addition to the rules, triggers, defaults, and unique indexes

already provided by SQL Server, you can now specify integrity
constraints in the create table statement. These include:
• Unique and primary key constraints to insure unique values in a
column
• Referential integrity constraints to guarantee that a primary key
exists in another table if you are inserting or updating a foreign
key table
• Check constraints to limit the values that can be inserted into a
table
• Defaults to specify default values for a column
Constraints can be changed or dropped with alter table. You can get
information about the constraints defined for a table using the new
sp_helpconstraint system procedure.

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See create table and alter table in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference
Manual for the new syntax. Chapter 6, ‘‘Creating Databases and
Tables’’, in the Transact-SQL User’s Guide describes how to use the
constraints along with additional examples.

Changes to Views

The distinct keyword can now be used in view definition, allowing

you to create views that do not contain duplicate rows.
The with check option clause has been added to the create view statement.
When a view is created with check option, all rows inserted or updated
through the view must meet the view criteria.
create view statements can be included in batches with other
Transact-SQL statements.
See create view in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual, or
Chapter 8, ‘‘Views: Limiting Access to Data’’, in the Transact-SQL
User’s Guide for more information and examples.

Schemas

The new create schema command allows you to create several objects
and grant permissions on those objects in a single statement, which
can be committed or rolled back as a unit. See create schema in Volume
1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual.

Datatypes

Release 10.0 of SQL Server provides these new datatypes:

• numeric or decimal (dec) specify exact numeric values, with
specified precision and scale to indicate the number of digits and
the number of digits to the right of the decimal point.
• double precision specifies an approximate numeric type.
The following changes have been made to existing datatypes:
• float now accepts an optional precision specification.
• The default length for char, varchar, nchar, and nvarchar columns is
1 in create table statements, variable declarations, and parameter
specifications.

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All system datatype names are case-insensitive. SQL Server treats

numeric constants in queries (such as select 2* colvalue) as exact
numeric types unless they are entered using E notation. Values
between 2 31 - 1 and -2 31 without decimal points are treated as int.
Values that fall outside the range for integers, or that include a
decimal point, are treated as numeric. See Chapter 2, ‘‘Changes That
May Affect Existing Applications’’, for information on how this can
affect existing applications.
The following list shows synonymous datatype names. Names that
are new in 10.0 are underlined.
• char, character
• varchar, char varying, character varying
• nchar, national character, national char
• nvarchar, national character varying, national char varying, nchar
varying
• double precision, float, real
• dec, decimal, numeric
• int, integer
See “Datatypes” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual or
Chapter 6 in the Transact-SQL User’s Guide for more information.

Automatic Sequential Values Using the IDENTITY Property

Each table in a database can have a single IDENTITY column. This

column is used to store numbers, such as invoice numbers or
employee numbers, that are automatically generated by SQL Server.
The value of the IDENTITY column uniquely identifies each row in a
table.
The IDENTITY column must be of type numeric and scale 0. By default,
IDENTITY columns cannot be updated and do not allow null values.
Only the table owner, the Database Owner, or a System
Administrator can explicitly insert a value into an IDENTITY column
after setting identity_insert on for the table.
Each time you insert a row into a table, SQL Server assigns a unique,
sequential value to the IDENTITY column. To retrieve the last value
inserted into an IDENTITY column, use the @@identity global variable.
To select a table’s IDENTITY column, use the syb_identity keyword,
qualified by the table name where necessary.

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For more information about IDENTITY columns, see IDENTITY

Columns and create table, alter table, insert, select, create view in Volume 1 of
the SQL Server Reference Manual.

Automatic Creation of IDENTITY Columns

System Administrators can use the new auto identity database option to
automatically include a 10-digit IDENTITY column in new tables. Each
time a user creates a table in the database without specifying either a
primary key, a unique index, or an IDENTITY column, SQL Server
automatically defines an IDENTITY column for the table. For more
information see “Identity Columns” in Chapter 3 of the SQL Server
Reference Manual, Volume 1.

Transactions, Triggers, and Stored Procedures Changes

Data Definition Language in Transactions

Certain data definition language commands are now allowed in

user-defined transactions. These commands include:

alter table create table drop procedure

create default create trigger drop rule
create index create view drop table
create procedure drop default drop trigger
create rule drop index drop view
create schema

grant and revoke commands are now allowed in transactions.

However, some commands such as dump database and dump transaction
are no longer allowed.
A new option for sp_dboption, ddl in tran, allows enabling or disabling
the use of data definition language in transactions. Be sure to read the
cautionary statements about using data definition language in
transactions, since this activity requires locking system tables.
For information about which commands you can use in transactions
and about the ddl in tran option, see “Transactions” in Volume 1 of the
SQL Server Reference Manual.

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Transaction State Information: @@transtate

SQL Server can now return information about the state of a

transaction. This status information indicates whether the
transaction succeeded, whether a single statement was rolled back,
or whether an entire transaction was rolled back. The information is
available in the new global variable, @@transtate.
See “Transactions” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual.
“Variables” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual also
provides a list of the status values.

New rollback trigger Command

The rollback feature has been expanded to include rollback trigger.

Now, you can choose to roll back an entire transaction using rollback
transaction, or to roll back statements up to the first data modification
that fired a trigger using rollback trigger. See rollback trigger and
“Transactions” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual for
more information.

Trigger Self-Recursion

A new set option, self_recursion, allows triggers to fire self-recursively:

to refire as a result of data modifications made by the trigger itself. By
default, when a trigger causes data modifications that would also
cause the trigger to fire, the trigger is prevented from firing. See set in
Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual for more information.

Stored Procedure Size Limits Removed

Release 10.0 of SQL Server eliminates the size limit for compiled
stored procedures and batches. To accommodate this change, the
maximum amount of text allowed for a stored procedure has been
increased to 16 Mb. This increase also applies to objects whose text is
stored in the syscomments system table, such as triggers, views,
defaults, rules, and constraints.

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Query/Data Modification Changes

Datatype Conversion Changes

Changes were made to datatype conversion rules for this release to

provide greater consistency across all SYBASE products.
• Formerly disallowed conversions to and from binary datatypes
are now allowed.
• Conversion from integer to character now returns an error
instead of “**” if the character value is not long enough to store
the converted value.
• Some changes were made to the “datatype hierarchy” that
controls the output datatype of mixed-mode datatype operations.
See Chapter 2, ‘‘Changes That May Affect Existing Applications’’,
for information on how these changes may affect existing
applications. The new hierarchy is included in the “Datatypes”
section of Volume 1 in the SQL Server Reference Manual.
Additional information about datatype conversions is provided in
“Datatype Conversion Functions” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server
Reference Manual and Chapter 9, ‘‘Using the Built-In Functions in
Queries’’ in the Transact-SQL User’s Guide.

New Hex Conversion Functions

Two new functions provide platform-independent conversions

between integer values and hexadecimal strings. See “Datatype
Conversion Functions” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference
Manual and Chapter 9, ‘‘Using the Built-In Functions in Queries’’ in
the Transact-SQL User’s Guide for information about inttohex and
hextoint.

Subquery Changes

The behavior of certain subqueries has changed. See Chapter 2,

‘‘Changes That May Affect Existing Applications’’ for detailed
information about these changes, and how they may affect your
existing applications.

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Grouping on bit Columns Allowed

You can now use group by on bit columns.

Random Number Generator Improvements

The rand function now uses the output of a 32-bit pseudo-random

integer generator. See “Mathematical Functions” in Volume 1 of the
SQL Server Reference Manual for more information.

between Predicate Changes

In some cases, the between predicate in Transact-SQL returned results

whether the values supplied were in the proper order (lower number
first after the predicate) or swapped (higher number first). In Release
10.0, a query with swapped between values returns no rows.

select into Column Headings

In a select into statement, column headings must be provided for any

select list item that includes aggregate functions or expressions. See
Chapter 2 for examples of expressions that require headings, and for
examples and syntax.

Column Alias

You can now use the keyword as in select statements between the
select expression and the alias name. For example:
select au_lname as lastname from authors

Full Dynamic SQL/Precompiler Support

SQL Server Release 10.0 provides full support for host variables and
Dynamic SQL. Full documentation can be found in Embedded SQL/C
and Embedded SQL/COBOL Programmer’s Guides.

Right Truncation of Character Strings

In previous releases, SQL Server silently truncated char, nchar, varchar,

and nvarchar strings when an insert or update entered strings longer

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than the specified column length. A new set option, string_rtruncation,

controls silent truncation of character strings. Set this option on to
prohibit silent truncation and enforce ANSI behavior. See set in
Volume 1, Chapter 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual for more
information.

ANSI Compatibility
SQL Server Release 10.0 meets SQL89 /FIPS 127-1 and SQL92/FIPS
127-2 standards. In addition to major features such as declarative
integrity constraints and cursors, which are described elsewhere in
this chapter, the following changes are included in Release 10.0. Since
some of ANSI behavior is not compatible with existing SQL Server
applications, Transact-SQL provides set options that allow you to
toggle these behaviors.

set Commands Required for ANSI Compliance

Compliant behavior is enabled by default for all Embedded SQL™

precompiler applications. Other applications needing to match ANSI
behavior can use option settings in Table 1-1: set Options for ANSI
Compliance for entry level SQL92 compliance.

Option Setting

ansi_permissions on
ansinull on
arithabort off
arithabort numeric_truncation on
arithignore off
chained on
close on endtran on
fipsflagger on
quoted_identifier on
string_rtruncation on
transaction isolation level 3

Table 1-1: set Options for ANSI Compliance

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The following sections describe the differences between standard

behavior and the default Transact-SQL behavior. For more
information on setting these options, see set in Chapter 1 of the SQL
Server Reference Manual, Volume 1.

FIPS Flagger

For customers writing applications that must conform to the ANSI

standard, SQL Server provides a set fipsflagger option to flag
incompatible syntax. When this option is turned on, all commands
containing Transact-SQL extensions that are not allowed in entry
level SQL92 generate an informational message. See set in Volume 1,
Chapter 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual for more information.

SQLSTATE Messages and Codes

By default, SQL Server returns SQLSTATE values to embedded SQL

applications, as required by entry level SQL92. SQLSTATE values are
included in a new column in sysmessages, when SQLSTATE codes are
defined in the standard. Some of the set commands listed in Table 1-1
cause the associated message text to be delivered to client
applications such as isql.

The escape Clause in the like Predicate

SQL Server now supports the ANSI escape clause, which allows you to
specify an escape character in the like predicate to search for wildcard
characters. This is in addition to Transact-SQL’s use of square
brackets for the same purpose. See “Wildcard Characters” in Volume
1, Chapter 3 of the SQL Server Reference Manual.

ANSI-Style Comments

In Transact-SQL, comments are delimited by /* */ pairs, and can be

nested. Transact-SQL now also supports ANSI-style comments,
which consist of any string beginning with two unspaced minus
signs, a comment, and a terminating newline:
select "hello" -- this is a comment
This syntax conflicts with the subtraction of a negative number. See
Chapter 2, ‘‘Changes That May Affect Existing Applications’’, for
information on how this can affect existing applications.

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Transact-SQL’s /* */ comments are still fully supported, and the “--”

within Transact-SQL comments is not recognized.

Changes to set Options arithabort and arithignore

Changes were made to the set options arithabort and arithignore to allow
compliance with the SQL92 standard:
• arithabort arith_overflow determines how SQL Server handles
arithmetic overflows and divide-by-zero errors during implicit
and explicit conversions. Set this option on to roll back the entire
transaction or batch in which the error occurs. Set this option off to
abort the statement that contains the error and continue
processing other statements in the transaction or batch.
• arithabort numeric_truncation determines how SQL Server handles loss
of scale during implicit conversions to a numeric or decimal type.
Set this option on to abort the statement that contains the error
and continue processing other statements in the transaction or
batch. Set it off to truncate the results as necessary and continue
processing.
• arithignore arith_overflow determines whether SQL Server ignores
arithmetic overflow and divide-by-zero errors. Set this option off
to print a warning message when these errors occur. Set it on to
ignore these errors and print no messages.
If you have used these options in your applications, examine them to
ensure that they are still producing the desired behavior.

Synonymous Keywords

Several keywords have been added for ANSI compatibility that are
synonymous with existing Transact-SQL keywords.

Pre-Release 10.0 Transact-SQL Additional Syntax

tran work
transaction
any some
grant all grant all privileges
revoke all revoke all privileges

Table 1-2: ANSI-Compatible Keyword Synonyms

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Pre-Release 10.0 Transact-SQL Additional Syntax

max (expression) max ([all | distinct]) expression
min (expression) min ([all | distinct]) expression
user_name built-in function user keyword

Table 1-2: ANSI-Compatible Keyword Synonyms (continued)

The new work keyword is synonymous with tran and transaction only
with the commit transaction and rollback transaction commands, not with
the begin transaction command.
See page 1-11 of this document for a list of synonymous datatypes.

Chained Transactions and Isolation Levels

SQL Server now provides ANSI-compliant “chained” transaction

behavior as an option. In chained mode, all data retrieval and
modification commands (delete, insert, open, fetch, select, and update)
implicitly begin a transaction. Since such behavior is incompatible
with many Transact-SQL applications, Transact-SQL style (or
“unchained”) transactions remain the default.

◆ WARNING!
Before you change the default transaction mode or isolation level, be
sure to read the sections in the Transact-SQL User’s Guide and Volume 1
of the SQL Server Reference Manual that describe how these changes can
affect existing applications and stored procedures.

Chained transaction mode can be initiated with a new option to the

set command. Another set option controls transaction isolation levels.
See “Transactions” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual for
more information.

Delimited Identifiers

SQL Server now supports delimited identifiers for table, view, and
column names. Delimited identifiers are object names enclosed
within double quotation marks. Using them allows you to avoid
certain restrictions on object names.

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Delimited identifiers can begin with non-alphabetic characters,

including characters that would not otherwise be allowed, or even be
Transact-SQL reserved words. They cannot exceed 28 bytes.
Set the new quoted_identifier option on to allow delimited identifiers.
While the option is on, do not use double quotes around character or
date strings; use single quotes instead. Delimiting strings with
double quotes causes SQL Server to treat them as identifiers.

➤ Note
Delimited identifiers cannot be used with some system procedures, cannot be
used with bcp, and may not be supported by all client software.

Treatment of Nulls

A new set option, ansinull, determines whether or not evaluation of

NULL-valued operands in SQL equality (=) or inequality (!=)
comparisons and in aggregate functions is ANSI-compliant. This
option does not affect how SQL Server evaluates NULL values in
other kinds of SQL statements, such as create table.

Right Truncation of Character Strings

A new set option, string_rtruncation, controls silent truncation of

character strings for ANSI compatibility. Set this option on to prohibit
silent truncation and enforce ANSI behavior.

Permissions Required for update and delete Statements

A new set option, ansi_permissions, determines what permissions are

required for delete and update statements. When this option is on, SQL
Server uses SQL92’s more stringent permissions requirements for
these statements. Because this behavior is incompatible with many
existing applications, the default setting for this option is off.

Enhancements to Permissions
Object and command permissions in SQL Server have been
enhanced with the following new options.

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grant with grant option

A new clause for the grant command, with grant option, allows a
permission holder to pass grant capability, along with the specific
permission, to other users, though not to groups, roles, or public. A
corresponding clause, cascade, for the revoke command, allows the
privilege holder to revoke permissions from all users who obtained
it via with grant option. See grant and revoke in Volume 1, Chapter 1 of the
SQL Server Reference Manual for syntax information. Chapter 5,
‘‘Managing User Permissions’’, of the System Administration Guide
provides a full discussion and examples of this new option.

Granting to Roles
You can grant and revoke object and command permissions to all
users who have been granted a specific role. The roles are sa_role,
sso_role, and oper_role. Permissions granted to roles override
permissions granted to individuals or groups.

Configurable Packet Size

New sp_configure options allow System Administrators to reset the

network packet size used by SQL Server. Larger packet sizes can
yield performance improvements when transferring large amounts
of data in or out of SQL Server. See Chapter 12, ‘‘Fine-Tuning
Performance and Operations’’ of the System Administration Guide for
full information.
New command line options for isql and bcp allow you to set the
packet size for an individual session. See the SQL Server Utility
Programs manual for your operating system for information about
using these options. Open Client™ Client-Library documentation
includes information on using variable packet sizes.

Chargeback Accounting

Chargeback accounting provides a mechanism for tracking CPU and

I/O usage for each server user. This feature was previously available
only on VMS.
See sp_clearstats and sp_reportstats in Volume 2 of the SQL Server
Reference Manual for information on getting reports and restarting
the accounting interval. See sp_configure for information on the cpu
flush and i/o flush configuration variables that affect chargeback
accounting.

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New dbcc Options

These changes have been made to dbcc, the database consistency

checker:
• A fix option has been added to dbcc checkalloc, so this command can
now fix certain allocation errors.
• A skip_ncindex option has been added to dbcc checkdb and dbcc
checktable. When you use this option, dbcc skips checking the
nonclustered indexes. Depending on the number of indexes on
your table or in your database, this can speed up the performance
of the command by up to 40 percent.

kill Command Enhancements

The kill command, used to terminate SQL Server sessions, can now
terminate more kinds of sessions. In previous releases, some of these
sessions could not be terminated (except by rebooting SQL Server),
or would only actually terminate when the processes stopped
sleeping. Now, these sessions can be terminated immediately. The
sp_who system procedure now displays different status values for
these sessions. For more information, see kill in Volume 1, Chapter 1
of the SQL Server Reference Manual or Chapter 11, ‘‘Diagnosing
System Problems’’ of the System Administration Guide.

shutdown Command Enhancements

The shutdown command, used to shutdown a SQL Server, can now be

used to shut down a Backup Server. The Backup Server must be
listed in your sysservers table and in the interfaces file for the SQL
Server from which you execute the shutdown command.
Unless you use the nowait option, shutdown waits for active dumps and
loads to complete. Once you issue a shutdown command to a Backup
Server, no new dumps or loads to the Backup Server can start.

tempdb Changes

By default, all users now have create table permission in tempdb. See
“Temporary Tables” in Volume 1, Chapter 3 of the SQL Server
Reference Manual for more information.

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Additional Information on Space Usage

System procedures now display additional information about space

available in databases:
• sp_helpdb database_name displays information about how much
space is left on each disk piece assigned to the database
• sp_helpsegment segment_name displays information about the
amount of free space left on the segment

Error Handling
raiserror can now return the name of the tables and columns causing
an error, along with the error number and text. See raiserror in Volume
1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual.

create index Performance Enhancements

Internal improvements have enhanced the speed of the create index
command. In addition, you can increase the speed of creating
indexes with a new sp_configure option.
When SQL Server creates an index, it reads and writes pages to disk
for intermediate sort results and writes out the final index pages one
page at a time. With Release 10.0, a System Administrator can
allocate buffers so that create index can perform these reads and writes
an extent at a time, thereby making more efficient use of the disk and
increasing the speed of the create index command. If you wish to use
this option, there are two important considerations:
• The buffers are added to the memory allocated by SQL Server.
Setting the value too large can make it impossible for SQL Server
to start if it cannot acquire enough memory.
• The first user who starts a create index command acquires all of the
allocated buffers; all subsequent create index commands that are
started before the first one completes will use regular
page-at-a-time disk I/O. For best performance, you should create
indexes when other users are not likely to contend for the
resource, or coordinate the creation of large indexes among table
owners.
See Chapter 12, ‘‘Fine-Tuning Performance and Operations’’ for
information about the new sp_configure option, extent i/o buffers. The
section contains suggestions for choosing the correct buffer size.

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Improvements to the Query Optimizer

Improvements to the query optimizer have increased SQL Server’s
accuracy in evaluating the cost of using indexes. You must run update
statistics on your indexes in order to take advantage of these changes,
although any previously created indexes continue to work.
This change involves the way that the query optimizer assesses the
cost of using indexes with compound keys on the inner table of a
join. Prior to Release 10.0, the optimizer computed a value for the
entire key, and would often underestimate the cost of using an index
if the query used only one or a few of the columns. In Release 10.0,
SQL Server maintains statistics for each prefix of columns in the
index, that is, for the first column, the first and second columns, the
first, second, and third columns, and so on.
The statistics used by the optimizer are generated by the create index
command, and are updated by the update statistics command. Indexes
created under earlier versions of SQL Server still work in Release
10.0, but in order to take advantage of the new behavior described
here, you must run the update statistics command on the table or index.

Bulk Copy Performance Enhancements

Internal improvements, transparent to users, result in faster bulk
copy speeds. In addition, configurable packet sizes can increase bulk
copy throughput. See bcp in the SQL Server Utility Programs manual
and Chapter 12, ‘‘Fine-Tuning Performance and Operations’’, in the
System Administration Guide for information about configuring
packet size.

Spanish Collating Orders

Release 10.0 supports these Spanish dictionary sort orders:
• Case sensitive
• Case insensitive
• Case and accent insensitive
To change the sort order on an existing SQL Server to use a Spanish
collating sequence, follow the directions in Chapter 17, ‘‘Language,
Sort Order, and Character Set Issues’’ in the System Administration
Guide. Instructions for installing a new SQL Server using a Spanish
collating sequence are in your SYBASE SQL Server Installation Guide.

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Document Reorganization
The SQL Server documentation set has been reorganized for this
release.
• The Commands Reference Manual has been split into two volumes:
- Transact-SQL commands, functions, and special topics (such as
Locking and Transactions) are now documented in Volume 1 of
the SYBASE SQL Server Reference Manual.
- The SYBASE system procedures and catalog stored procedures
are now documented in Volume 2 of the SYBASE SQL Server
Reference Manual.
• The SYBASE SQL Server Utility Programs now documents the
utility programs for your operating system.
• The Transact-SQL User’s Guide has been reorganized, with the first
part tailored to new SQL users and the more advanced and
complex concepts presented in the second part.

Summary by Command Name, Type, Tables Affected

set Options

The following table summarizes new and changed set options:

Option Use
set ansinull {on | off} Toggles ANSI treatment of NULL-valued
operands in equality (=) and inequality (!=)
comparisons. When on, treatment is ANSI
‘89 compliant.
set ansi_permissions {on | off} Determines whether ANSI-compliant
permissions requirements for update and
delete statements are checked.
set arithabort [arith_overflow | Determines whether SQL Server aborts a
numeric_truncation] {on | off} query when an arithmetic overflow or
numeric truncation error occurs.
set arithignore [arith_overflow] {on | Determines whether SQL Server displays a
off} warning message after any query that
results in arithmetic overflow.

Table 1-3: New set Options

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Option Use
set chained {on | off} Toggles the chained transaction mode in
SQL Server.
set close on endtran {on | off} Forces all open cursors to be closed when
the transaction ends (on) or to remain open
across transactions (off).
set cursor rows number Sets the number of cursor rows returned to
for cursor_name the host on each fetch for the specified
client cursor. The default is 1.
set dup_in_subquery {on | off} Controls whether a subquery using the in
clause returns duplicate values. The
default is off; duplicate rows are not
returned. In prior SQL Server releases, a
row was returned for each matching row
in the subquery. ANSI specifies removing
duplicate values from the result set.
set fipsflagger {on | off} Toggles the FIPS flagger. When on, the
option prints warning messages for the
Transact-SQL extensions to ANSI 89 SQL.
set identity_insert table_name Determines whether a user can explicitly
{on | off} insert a value into table_name’s IDENTITY
column. Users can turn this option on for
only one table at a time per database.
set quoted_identifier {on | off} Determines whether SQL Server treats
strings enclosed in double quotes (") as
identifiers.
set role {”sa_role” |”sso_role” Toggles the specified role during the
| ”oper_role”} {on | off} current SQL Server session.
set self_recursion {on | off} Switches trigger self-recursion on or off, so
that triggers that modify data cause the
trigger to fire again.
set string_rtruncation {on | off} Determines if silent truncation of character
strings is allowed. When on, treatment is
ANSI ‘89 compliant
set transaction isolation level {1|3} Sets the transaction isolation level. An
isolation level of 3 is equivalent of doing
select with holdlock.

Table 1-3: New set Options (continued)

set showplan now prints full command names instead of abbreviations.

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New and Changed Built-In Functions

The following table lists new and changed built-in functions:

Name Function

col_name Changed to accept a database name as an optional third

parameter.
inttohex New datatype conversion function. Returns the
platform-independent hexadecimal equivalent of an integer.
hextoint New datatype conversion function. Returns the
platform-independent integer equivalent of a hexadecimal
string.
index_col Changed to accept a user name as an optional fourth parameter.

lct_admin New system function. Adds a last-chance threshold on the log

segment of a pre-10.0 database, or reports on the last-chance
threshold status, or wakes up processes waiting for a threshold,
depending on the parameter you use.
object_name Changed to accept a database name as an optional second
parameter.
proc_role New system function. Checks to see if the user possesses the
specified role. Useful for restricting execution of procedures.
show_role New system function. Shows the user’s current, active roles.

user New ANSI compatible system function returns the user name.

Table 1-4: New and Changed Built-In Functions

In addition, many of the mathematical functions have been changed

to accept the new numeric datatypes, as appropriate.
See Volume 1, Chapter 2 of the SYBASE SQL Server Reference Manual
for information on these functions.

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New System Procedures

The following new system procedures provide some of the

functionality for the features described earlier in this summary. The
table shows the procedure name and its associated function:

Name Function

sp_addauditrecord Allows users to enter user-defined audit records

(comments) into the audit trail.
sp_addthreshold Creates a free-space threshold to monitor space
remaining on a database segment.
sp_auditdatabase Establishes auditing of different types of events within a
database, or of references to objects within that database
from another database.
sp_auditlogin Audits a user’s attempts to access tables and views,
and/or the text of a user’s commands.
sp_auditobject Establishes auditing of accesses to tables and views.

sp_auditoption Enables and disables system-wide auditing and global

audit options.
sp_auditsproc Audits the execution of stored procedures and triggers.

sp_bindmsg Binds a user message to an integrity constraint.

sp_checkreswords Checks for reserved words used as identifiers. The

procedure is run as part of pre-upgrade.
sp_configurelogin Initializes the security-relevant information for a new
Secure SQL Server login.
sp_cursorinfo Reports information about a specific cursor or all cursors
which are active.
sp_dbremap Forces changes made by alter database to be recognized by
SQL Server. Run this procedure only if instructed by SQL
Server messages.
sp_displaylogin Displays information about a login account.

sp_dropthreshold Removes a free-space threshold from a segment.

sp_estspace Estimates the amount of space needed for a table and its
indexes.
sp_helpconstraint Reports information about any integrity constraints
specified for a table.
sp_helpthreshold Reports information on all thresholds in the current
database or all thresholds for a particular segment.

Table 1-5: New System Procedures

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Name Function

sp_locklogin Prevents a user from logging in, or displays a list of all

locked accounts.
sp_modifylogin Modifies default database, default language, and full
name information for a SQL Server login account.
sp_modifythreshold Changes parameters for existing thresholds in a
database.
sp_procxmode Displays or changes the transaction modes associated
with stored procedures.
sp_remap Upgrades a release 4.8 or higher stored procedure,
trigger, rule, default or view to be compatible with
release 10.0. Use this on objects that the upgrade
procedure failed to remap.
sp_role Grants or revokes roles to a SQL Server login account.

sp_thresholdaction Default threshold procedure that is executed

automatically when remaining space on the log segment
falls below the last-chance threshold. This procedure is
not supplied by Sybase. By creating it yourself, you
ensure that it is tailored to your own needs.
sp_unbindmsg Unbinds a user-defined message from a constraint.

sp_volchanged Notifies SQL Server that the operator has performed the
requested volume handling during a dump or load.

Table 1-5: New System Procedures (continued)

The following procedures are used for chargeback accounting. This

feature is now available on all platforms. In earlier releases, it was
available only on VMS.

Name Function

sp_clearstats Initiates a new accounting period for all server users, or

a specified user. Prints out statistics for the previous
period by executing sp_reportstats.
sp_reportstats Reports statistics on system usage.

Table 1-6: Chargeback Accounting System Procedures

See Volume 2 of the SQL Server Reference Manual for information on

these procedures.

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Changes to System Procedures

The following system procedures have been changed in this release:

Name Changes

sp_addsegment, These procedures now require a database name as the

sp_dropsegment, second argument. This change prevents users from
sp_extendsegment accidentally affecting segments in the wrong databases.

sp_defaultdb These procedures have been superseded by

sp_defaultlanguage sp_modifylogin, which can also change or add “full name”
information about a login account. These procedures are
still provided by Sybase, but are no longer documented.
Use sp_modifylogin instead.
sp_helpdb Now displays information about how much space is left
on each disk piece assigned to the database.
sp_helpsegment Now displays information about the amount of free
space left on the segment
sp_lock Now displays information whether a lock is associated
with a cursor.
sp_who Displays different status values for sleeping processes:
recv sleep, send sleep, lock sleep and alarm sleep.

Table 1-7: Changes to System Procedures

New Configuration Variables

There are new configuration variables for use with sp_configure:

Option Function

additional netmem Memory added for use with variable packet sizes

audit queue size Number of audit records in the audit queue

cpu flush Used to configure chargeback accounting (new on

non-OpenVMS platforms).
default network Default packet size.
packet size
extent i/o buffers Allocates additional memory to be used for buffering
data pages during create index and order by read/writes to
disk.

Table 1-8: New Configuration Options

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Option Function

identity burning set Determines the percentage of potential IDENTITY

factor column values made available in memory. When
assigning a new IDENTITY column value, SQL Server
chooses the next value from this set. If the server fails
before assigning these values, it discards any remaining
values in the set, leading to gaps in IDENTITY column
values.
i/o flush Used to configure chargeback accounting (new on
non-OpenVMS platforms).
maximum network Maximum allowable packet size.
packet size
password Sets password expiration time.
expiration interval

Table 1-8: New Configuration Options (continued)

The serial number field, configuration value 114, has been removed.

New Database Options

There are new database options:

Option Function

abort tran on log full Determines whether user processes are suspended (the
default) or aborted when the last-chance threshold on a
database’s log segment is reached.
allow nulls by Changes the default null type for create table statements
default from not null (the Transact-SQL default) to null (the ANSI
default.)
auto identity Automatically defines a 10-digit IDENTITY column,
syb_identity_col, in each new table that does not specify a
primary key, a unique index, or an IDENTITY column. The
column is not visible with a select * statement; you must
include the column name in the select list to retrieve it.

Table 1-9: New sp_dboption Database Options

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Option Function

ddl in tran Allows data definition language in user transactions.

The allowed commands are all create and drop
commands, except create/drop database, plus grant and
revoke commands.
no free space acctg Suppresses free space accounting and the execution of
threshold actions on non-log segments of a database.

Table 1-9: New sp_dboption Database Options (continued)

You can change these options with sp_dboption.

Also, the trunc. log on chkpt. option can now be used with or without the
periods, that is, trunc log on chkpt is also supported.

New System Tables

There are four new system tables in all databases:

• sysconstraints
• sysreferences
• sysroles
• systhresholds
The master database includes the following new system tables:
• syslisteners
• sysloginroles
• syssrvroles
If you install auditing, the sybsecurity database is automatically
created, with two tables: sysaudits and sysauditoptions (as well as the
default system tables for all user databases).
These are fully documented in Appendix B, “The System Tables”,
included in both the System Administration Guide and the SQL Server
Reference Manual.

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Changes to Existing System Tables

The following system tables have changed in this release:

Table Changes
master..sysdatabases New columns: status2, audflags, deftabaud, defvwaud,
defpraud; mode removed.
master..syslocks New column: class.
master..syslogins New columns: pwdate, audflags, fullname. Formerly
reserved columns now used: status, accdate, totcpu, and
totio. (The last three columns are used by chargeback
accounting, formerly available on VMS only.)
master..sysmessages New column: sqlstate.
master..sysprocesses New columns: tran_name, time_blocked, network_pktsz.
master..sysusages New columns: pad and unreservedpgs.
syscolumns New columns: prec, scale.
syscomments New column: colid2.
sysindexes New column: status2. Changed columns: spare1 to
oampgtrips, spare2 to ipgtrips.
sysobjects Changed columns: schema to schmacnt, refdate to
sysstat2, category to ckfirst. New columns: objspare and
audflags.
sysprotects New column: grantor. Changed columns: values for the
protecttype column are different. 0 indicates grant with
grant, 1 indicates regular grant, and 2 indicates revoke.
systypes New columns: prec, scale, ident, hierarchy.

Table 1-10: Changes to Existing System Tables

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2 2. Changes That May Affect Existing
Applications

Introduction
This chapter describes the changes to Release 10.0 of SQL Server that
may affect existing applications. These changes are:
• New Transact-SQL keywords
• Password changes
• Addition of sybsystemprocs database
• Remote access configured “on” in all existing databases for
Backup Server
• Changes to dump scripts
• Changes to renaming databases
• Datatype changes:
- Display Format Changes
- Changes to the datatype hierarchy and defaults
- Overflow changes, including float-to-character, numeric-to-
numeric, and integer-to-character conversions.
• Change to between
• Addition of ANSI-style comments using “--”
• Addition of ANSI-compliant permissions requirements for update
and delete statements
• Addition of ANSI-compliant treatment of nulls when set ansinull is
on
• Chained transaction mode and its effect on stored procedures
• Role changes that may affect scripts
• Repeated table names in the from clause of an update or select
statement now causes an error
• Column names required for select into when the select list contains
expressions or aggregates
• Changes to correlation name handling
• Changes to subquery behavior
In addition, you may want to review applications using “browse
mode”, to take advantage of cursors.

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New Transact-SQL Keywords

The following keywords are new “reserved” words in 10.0 SQL
Server. They cannot be used as object names or column names.

arith_overflow identity_insert references

at isolation replace
authorization key role
cascade level rows
check mirror schema
close national shared
constraint noholdlock some
current numeric_truncation stripe
cursor of syb_identity
deallocate only syb_restree
double open user
endtran option user_option
escape precision varying
fetch primary work
foreign privileges
identity read

Table 2-1: New Reserved Words

You must change all database names that are new reserved words
before you can upgrade an earlier version of the server. You can
change table, view, and column names or use delimited identifiers.
Once you upgrade to Release 10.0, you cannot use database objects
whose names are new reserved words until you modify your
procedures, SQL scripts, and applications.
A new system procedure, sp_checkreswords, checks for reserved words
used as identifiers and reports the object names. For information on
running this procedure before you upgrade, see your SYBASE SQL
Server Installation Guide.

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SYBASE SQL Server Release 10.0 Password Changes

If you choose to leave some of these reserved words as identifiers

until after you upgrade to 10.0, you can run the procedure
sp_checkreswords at any time. See sp_checkreswords in Volume 2 of the
SQL Server Reference Manual for information about running this
procedure and for detailed information about upgrading your
applications.

Password Changes
SQL Server no longer allows NULL passwords. All passwords must
be at least 6 bytes in length. Existing passwords containing less than
6 bytes are not changed during upgrade, but all future uses of
sp_password will require a 6-character new password.
You can globally force users to change passwords within a specified
time period using the password expiration level option to sp_configure. This
feature provides last-chance warning messages when a user logs in
with a password that is about to expire. Users whose passwords have
expired can log in, but they can execute sp_password only.
If you have applications that include embedded passwords, you will
need to update them each expiration period if you turn on password
expiration.
See Chapter 12, ‘‘Fine-Tuning Performance and Operations’’, in the
System Administration Guide for more information.

Addition of sybsystemprocs Database

In Release 10.0, all Sybase-provided system procedures are now
stored in a database called sybsystemprocs rather than in the master
database. Possible effects on user applications are:
• Permissions on system procedures need to be changed in
sybsystemprocs.
• System Administrators need to decide where to place their own
procedures.
• Upgrade may increase the open databases configuration variable, if
adding sybsystemprocs requires it. You should verify the value for
your needs on your server.
• Scripts that perform backups and dbcc may need to change.
• Recovery of master database and system databases has changed.

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Addition of sybsystemprocs Database SYBASE SQL Server Release 10.0

Changing Permissions on System Procedures

If you have changed the default permissions on any system

procedures, you must grant or revoke the permissions on those
procedures in sybsystemprocs after upgrade.

Moving Your Own Procedures

To move your own procedures to sybsystemprocs, you must:

• Change all references to system tables or other objects that exist
only in master to reference the master database explicitly.
• Add checks to be sure that the procedure is not being run from
within a transaction.
Once these steps have been performed, you can create the procedure
in the sybsystemprocs database and drop it from master.

Changing References to master’s System Tables

If you want to move your locally-created system procedures to
sybsystemprocs, and they reference system tables in master, you must
qualify all of the tables names with the database name.
For example, if your procedure references syslogins, you must change
the reference to master..syslogins. When you create a stored
procedure, SQL Server checks to see that all of the tables that are
referenced in the procedure exist. You cannot create the procedure in
sybsystemprocs without the explicit database reference.

Checking for the Existence of Transactions

A stored procedure in sybsystemprocs should never modify the tables
in master inside a transaction, because this could create problems
with recovery.
SYBASE system procedures include a check, similar to this:
if @@trancount > 0
begin
print "Can’t run this procedure from within a transaction"
return 1
end

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Configuring Open Databases

By default, SQL Server is configured to allow up to 10 open

databases. The upgrade process will reconfigure the open databases
variable if the addition of sybsystemprocs requires an additional open
database.

Changing Backup and dbcc Procedures

If you add your own procedures to sybsystemprocs or change the

default permissions on the system procedures, you should add
sybsystemprocs to your regular backup schedule.
You should also include sybsystemprocs in your regular dbcc checks.

Changes in Master Recovery

Due to the addition of sybsystemprocs and also Backup Server

changes in system tables and system procedures, the process of
recovering system databases in case of a failure of the master device
has changed. See Chapter 9, ‘‘Backing Up and Restoring the System
Databases’’, in the System Administration Guide for more information.

Remote Access and the Backup Server

All dump and load operations in Release 10.0 of SQL Server are
executed through remote procedure calls to the Backup Server. To
allow SQL Server to communicate with the Backup Server, the
configuration variable remote access must be turned on. Leave this
variable turned on unless you have security concerns. You must be a
System Security Officer to set remote access.
Turning on remote access does not affect any of the other conditions
needed to execute remote procedure calls between servers. This
setting, in itself, does not represent a security concern, because
server-to-server communication requires additional system
administration actions to enable remote procedure calls. These
actions include making entries for the remote servers in
master..sysservers; and making entries for remote users in
master..sysremotelogins.

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Changes to Dump Scripts SYBASE SQL Server Release 10.0

If you wish to leave remote access disabled except during a dump or

load, you must always issue the following command before issuing
the dump or load command:
sp_configure "remote access", 1
After you complete the dump, turn remote access off again with the
command:
sp_configure "remote access", 0
The remote access configuration variable is dynamic: you do not have
to restart SQL Server for the sp_configure command to take effect.

Changes to Dump Scripts

Backup facilities have changed in Release 10.0 of SQL Server. This
section describes the minimum changes needed to existing dump
scripts.
The single feature that can most affect your current use of tapes and
dump commands is Backup Server’s ability to make multiple dumps
to a single tape. The new dump is placed after the last existing file on
the current tape volume.

➤ Note
All dumps to the “null device” (/dev/null on UNIX or any device starting with “NL”
on VMS) are now prohibited.

Here are some guidelines for backing up your databases

immediately after upgrading to 10.0:
• If you use new tapes, or tapes without ANSI labels, existing dump
scripts overwrite the entire tape.
• If you use single-file media (for example, quarter-inch cartridge)
with ANSI labels, and the expiration dates on the tapes have
expired, existing dump scripts will overwrite the tapes.
• If the expiration date on a single-file tape has not been reached,
you will be asked to confirm the overwrite; a positive response
will overwrite the existing tape; a negative response initiates a
request for a volume change, and tests are repeated on the new
volume.
• If you use multi-file tape media, and do not change your dump
scripts, the dump will be appended to the existing files on the
tape.

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• If you want to overwrite existing tapes that have ANSI labels, you
must append the with init clause to existing dump commands:
dump databasse mydb
to datadump1
with init
You can also use operating system commands to erase or
truncate the tape.
The following diagram shows the logic used in tape label checking
on a dump command used without the init option:

N
ANSI Label?

N
Single File
Format Tape?

Y
Perform dump,
appending to end Y
of tape Expired?

N
N
Insert different Y
tape Confirm
Overwrite

Perform dump,
overwriting
tape

Figure 2-1: Checking Tape Format and Expiration Dates for Dump Commands

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Changes to Renaming Databases SYBASE SQL Server Release 10.0

Changes to Renaming Databases

If any table in the database references—or is referenced by—a table
in another database, sp_renamedb cannot rename the database. It
produces the following error message:
Database ’database_name’ has references to other
databases. Drop those references and try again.
Execute the following query to determine which tables and external
databases have foreign key constraints on primary key tables in the
current database:
select object_name(tableid), db_name(frgndbname)
from sysreferences
where frgndbname is not null
Execute the following query to determine which tables and external
databases have primary key constraints for foreign key tables in the
current database:
select object_name(reftabid), db_name(pmrydbname)
from sysreferences
where pmrydbname is not null
Before renaming the database, you must use alter table to drop the
cross-database constraints in these tables. See sp_renamedb in Volume
2 of the SQL Server Reference Manual for more information about
renaming databases.

Datatype and Conversion Changes

Display Format Changes

The isql display format for approximate-numeric datatypes now

displays additional digits of precision. Maximum units of precision
for storage and display are machine dependent. real values now
display up to 9 digits of precision; float values, up to 17 digits. Values
are rounded to the last digit on display. Previously, only six places to
the right of the decimal point were displayed.
All values requiring more digits than the maximum are displayed in
scientific notation, that is, a float value “1e18” is displayed as such,
rather than 1000000000000000000.000000. Note that the new exact
numeric types, decimal and numeric, display the entire number.

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Default Type Changes

Numeric literals in SQL statements are now treated as exact numeric

types, int or numeric, unless they are entered using scientific notation.
Here are examples of differences you might see:

SQL Statement Pre-10.0 Servers 10.0

select 2147483648 integer overflow 2147483648.
select 2*1.12345678 2.246914 2.24691356.
select 2.8 * 5 14.000000 14.0

Table 2-2: Changes in Output Using Numeric Literals

Datatype Hierarchy Changes

Each system datatype has a datatype hierarchy, stored in the systypes

system table. User-defined datatypes inherit the hierarchy of the
system types on which they are based. The following query ranks the
system datatypes by hierarchy:
select name,hierarchy
from systypes
order by hierarchy
name hierarchy
------------------------------ ---------
floatn 1
float 2
datetimn 3
datetime 4
real 5
numericn 6
numeric 7
decimaln 8
decimal 9
moneyn 10
money 11
smallmoney 12
smalldatetime 13
intn 14
int 15
smallint 16
tinyint 17
bit 18
varchar 19

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sysname 19
nvarchar 19
char 20
nchar 20
varbinary 21
timestamp 21
binary 22
text 23
image 24
(28 rows affected)
The datatype hierarchy determines the results of computations using
values of different datatypes. The result value is assigned the
datatype that is closest to the top of the list.
In earlier releases of SQL Server, there were certain exceptions to this
rule that have been eliminated in Release 10.0. Specifically, float and
numeric computations combined with money or smallmoney.

Datatypes Pre-10.0 Servers 10.0

money and numeric N/A numeric
money and float money float

Table 2-3: Changes to Datatype Hierarchy

Workarounds include:
• If you are combining money and literals or variables, and need
results of money type, use money literals or variables:
select moneycol * $2.5 from mytable
• If you are combining money with a float or numeric column, use the
convert function:
select convert (money, moneycol * percentcol)
from debts, interest

Overflow Changes

More information on overflow conditions is provided, and overflow

behavior has changed for some datatypes. Additional error
messages provide more information about the specific cause of the
overflow problem.

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Floating Point-to-Character Conversions

In previous releases, conversion from floating point to character in
some cases allowed some truncation of floating point decimal data
without warning, and in other cases generated warning messages.
Now, all conversions to character data of any length succeed only if
no decimal digits are lost. The length of the character string varies
depending upon the number being converted and the accuracy of
floating point numbers supported by the platform. To guarantee
success, use a target of 25 characters.

Numeric-to-Numeric Conversions Requiring Truncation

All conversions to money datatypes round to four places. When an
explicit conversion of one numeric value to another results in a loss
of scale, the results are truncated without warning. For example,
when you explicitly convert a float, numeric, or decimal type to an
integer, SQL Server assumes you really want the result to be an
integer and truncates all numbers to the right of the decimal point.
During implicit conversions to numeric or decimal types, loss of scale
generates a scale error. Use the arithabort numeric_truncation option to
determine how serious such an error is considered. The default
setting, arithabort numeric_truncation on, aborts the statement that causes
the error but continues to process other statements in the transaction
or batch. If you set arithabort numeric_truncation off, SQL Server truncates
the query results and continues processing. This option is set on by
default.

Integer-to-Character Conversions
Conversions from integer types to character types now return a
buffer overflow error (instead of “*”) on overflow.

Changes to Conversion Error Messages

The text of the messages for unsupported datatype conversions

(Message 529) now reads:
Explicit conversion from datatype ’type’ to ’type’
is not allowed.

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Change to between SYBASE SQL Server Release 10.0

New error messages provide additional information about datatype

conversion errors:

Error
Message
Number
241 Scale error during [explicit | implicit] conversion of datatype value
‘value’ to a datatype field.
245 Domain error during [explicit | implicit] conversion of datatype
value ‘value’ to a datatype field.
247 Arithmetic overflow during [explicit | implicit] conversion of
datatype value ‘value’ to a datatype field.
249 Syntax error during [explicit | implicit] conversion of datatype
value ‘value’ to a datatype field.
265 Insufficient result space for [explicit | implicit] conversion of
datatype value ‘value’ to a datatype field.

Table 2-4: New Type Conversion Error Messages

Change to between
The between predicate is used in where clauses, such as this:
where colx between val1 and val2
val1 must be less than val2. In a few situations, the between predicate
returned correct values, even when val2 < val1. In Release 10.0, these
values must be given in the correct order; check your applications
that use between if you think they may be dependent on the incorrect
behavior.

ANSI-Style Comments
To comply with ANSI 89, SQL Server now supports ANSI-style
comments, which consist of two dash or minus-sign characters. All
characters after “--” are ignored. This could cause problems in any
SQL query that uses the subtraction of a negative number, such as
this:
select 5--2
This query no longer returns the value “7”; it now returns “5”. All
characters from “--” to the end of the line are ignored.

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SYBASE SQL Server Release 10.0 ANSI-Compliant Permissions Requirements for update and delete

You can correct any constructions like these by inserting a space

between the minus signs, or by enclosing “-2” in parentheses:
select 5-(-2)

ANSI-Compliant Permissions Requirements for update and delete

SQL Server now supports ANSI-compliant permissions requirements
for update and delete statements. The following table summarizes
these requirements:

Permissions Required with Permissions Required with

set ansi_permissions off set ansi_permissions on

update • update permission on columns where • update permission on columns where

values are being set values are being set
And...
• select permission on all columns
appearing in where clause
• select permission on all columns right
side of set clause
delete • delete permission on columns where • delete permission on the table from which
values are being set rows are being deleted
And...
• select permission on all columns
appearing in where clause

Table 2-5: ANSI Permissions for update and delete

If you attempt to update or delete without having all the required

permissions, an exception is generated and the transaction is rolled
back. In this case, you will see the following message:
permission_type permission denied on object object_name database
database_name, owner object_owner
If this occurs, you need to be granted select permission on all relevant
columns by the column owner.

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ANSI-Compliant Treatment of Nulls

SQL Server now supports ANSI ‘89 -compliant treatment of NULL
value operands in equality (=) and inequality (!=) comparisons.
When set ansinull is on, SQL Server returns an error message if a NULL
value operand is eliminated from equality (=) and inequality (!=)
comparisons and aggregate functions.

Switching to Chained Transaction Mode

Stored procedures written to use regular Transact-SQL transaction
mode may be incompatible with ANSI chained transaction mode. In
Release 10.0, all transactions will be tagged to identify which mode
they use. If you intend to convert existing SQL Server applications to
use chained transaction mode, see “Transactions” in Volume 1 of the
SQL Server Reference Manual and sp_procxmode in Volume 2 for
information about changing transaction modes.

Using Roles in SQL Server

See ‘‘System Administration Roles’’ on page 1-7 for a description of
the new roles. There are two ways to use roles in the SQL Server:
• As before, use the “sa” account for system administration tasks.
When SQL Server is installed, this account has System
Administrator, System Security Officer, and Operator roles
enabled.
• After installing SQL Server, use the “sa” account to create new
server logins for users who are to be granted roles. Grant the
correct roles to these users, and then lock the “sa” account.
The second method increases user accountability for these highly
privileged users, as they perform system administration tasks under
their own logins.
However, if you decide to lock the “sa” account, be sure to check all
scripts that may contain the “sa” login name and password. These
can include scripts that perform backups, run bcp, or perform dbcc
checking. The scripts cannot run if they are meant to run as “sa” and
that account is locked. Change the logins in those scripts to the name
of one of the users with the correct role.

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SYBASE SQL Server Release 10.0 Repeated Table Names in from Clauses

Repeated Table Names in from Clauses

In ANSI 89, the following construction is not allowed:
select * from table1, table1
[where_clause]
In earlier releases, SQL Server handled the select by returning only
the first table and ignoring the self-join. In Release 10.0, this syntax
returns an error message.
The correct syntax uses table correlation names:
select * from table1 t1, table1 t2
[where_clause]
A similar construction using repeated table names in an update
statement also returns an error message:
update table1
set a = a + 1
from table1
where b = 5
The update statement also creates a self-join on the table named after
update and the table in the from clause. It returns unexpected results,
because it updates all rows from the first-mentioned table, seemingly
ignoring the restriction in the where clause. The correct syntax also
uses table correlation names in the from clause:
update table1
set a = a + 1
from table1 t1
where t1.b = 5
Note that the ANSI 89 standard does not include the use of the from
clause in an update statement.

Column Names Required for select into with Expressions

Previous releases of SQL Server allowed NULL column heading in
tables created by select into. These NULL headings resulted from any
use of an expression in the select list: an aggregate function, constant,
built-in function, arithmetic expression, concatenation, and so on. In
Release 10.0, you must provide a column heading. The heading must
be a valid identifier, that is, it must begin with an alphabetic
character or an underscore, and contain only letters, numbers, and a
limited set of symbols (#, @, _, $, ¥, or £). It cannot contain embedded
spaces.

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You should check all applications that use select into. Examples of
select list items that require headings are:
• An aggregate function:
avg(advance)
• Arithmetic expression:
colname * 2
• String concatenation:
au_lname + ", " + au_fname
• Built-in function:
substring(au_lname,1,5)
• Constant:
"Result"
There are three ways to specify the column heading:
• Before the expression or aggregate function, with an “=”:
select title_id, avg_advance = avg(advance)
into #tempdata
from titles
• After the expression or aggregate function:
select title_id, avg(advance) avg_advance
into #tempdata
from titles
• After the expression or aggregate function, with as:
select title_id, avg(advance)as avg_advance
into #tempdata
from titles
The column names must be valid identifiers, unless you are using the
delimited identifier feature.

Changes to Correlation Name Handling

In Release 10.0, queries that include correlation names conform to
ANSI requirements. In earlier releases, statements that specified
correlation names but did not use them consistently still returned
results. These statements now return errors. For example, this
statement is incorrect:

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select title_id
from titles t
where titles.type = "trad_cook"
The correct query is:
select title_id
from titles t
where t.type = "trad_cook"
When this same type of correlation is included in a subquery, no
error is reported, but queries may return different results. Here is an
example:
select *
from mytable
where columnA =
(select min(columnB) from mytable m
where mytable.columnC = 10)
In earlier releases, the reference to mytable.columnC in the subquery
referred to the mytable in the subquery. Now, this query is a correlated
subquery, and mytable.columnC refers to the outer table mytable.
If the query needs to refer to the mytable in the subquery, the correct
statement is:
select *
from mytable
where columnA =
(select min(columnB) from mytable m
where m.columnC = 10)

Subquery Changes
Several problems relating to subqueries have been fixed in Release
10.0 of SQL Server. This section describes old and new behavior in
detail. Examine applications that use subqueries to determine if your
application relies on behavior that has been corrected. This may
especially be true of the first two items below.
The following types of subqueries have changed:
• Correlated subqueries using in and any
• Subqueries using not in when the subquery returns NULL values
• in and any subqueries combined with or
• >all and <all with subqueries that return no rows

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• Subqueries that suppressed duplicate values from the outer

query
• Aggregate queries with exists when there are duplicate values
• Correlated subqueries with distinct when used with in
In addition, support has been added for:
• The use of =all to introduce subqueries
• The use of aggregates in where clauses, if the following conditions
are true:
- The aggregate appears in a subquery that is in a having clause
- The aggregated value refers only to tables named in the from
clause of the outer query
- The aggregated value does not refer to tables named in the from
clause of the subquery itself
An in subquery (or a subquery using any) performs an existence
check. The subquery evaluates to TRUE or FALSE. Correlated
subqueries return a single TRUE or FALSE value for each row in the
outer query. A subquery should not cause rows from the outer query
to be returned more than once each.
Subqueries using the in predicate used to return duplicates. The same
is true for subqueries using any. For example, using the pubs2
database:
select pub_name
from publishers
where pub_id in
(select pub_id
from titles)
Or:
select pub_name
from publishers
where pub_id = any
(select pub_id
from titles)
In pre-10.0 releases of Transact-SQL, these queries both returned a
pub_name for each row in the inner query:

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pub_name
----------------
New Age Books
New Age Books
New Age Books
New Age Books
New Age Books
Binnet & Hardley
Binnet & Hardley
Binnet & Hardley
Binnet & Hardley
Binnet & Hardley
Binnet & Hardley
Binnet & Hardley
Algodata Infosystems
Algodata Infosystems
Algodata Infosystems
Algodata Infosystems
Algodata Infosystems
Algodata Infosystems
They now return:
pub_name
------------------------
New Age Books
Binnet & Hardley
Algodata Infosystems
If you have applications which depend on the pre-10.0 Transact-SQL
behavior, use the following set command until you can rewrite the
existing queries as joins, or add indexes to the tables the queries
operate on:
set dup_in_subquery on

◆ WARNING!
set dup_in_subquery on is provided only as an upgrade path to SQL
Server Release 10.0. It will not be supported in future releases. See the
Release Bulletin for more information.

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Subqueries Using not in with NULL

A subquery using the not in predicate returns a set of values for each
row in the outer query. If the value from the outer query is not in this
set, the not in returns TRUE. If the set returned by the subquery
contains no matching value, but it does contain a NULL, the not in
returns UNKNOWN. This is because NULL stands for “value
unknown”, and it is impossible to tell whether the value you’re
looking for is in a set containing an unknown value. In earlier
releases, SQL Server erroneously considered this case to be TRUE.
For example, using the pubs2 database:
select pub_id
from publishers
where $100.00 not in
(select price
from titles
where titles.pub_id = publishers.pub_id)
In previous releases, this query returned:
pub_id
------
0736
0877
1389
It now returns the correct result:
pub_id
------
0736

in and any Subqueries Using or

When a subquery using the any or in predicate is combined with or in

a logical expression, the query should return rows if the subquery
evaluates to FALSE, when the other clause of the logical expression
evaluates to TRUE. The same is true of subqueries using any. For
example, using the pubs2 database:
select pub_name
from publishers
where pub_id in
(select pub_id
from titles
where title = ‘No Such Book’)
or pub_id = ‘1389’

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Or:
select pub_name
from publishers
where pub_id = any
(select pub_id
from titles
where title = ‘No Such Book’)
or pub_id = ‘1389‘
These queries both returned no result rows in pre-10.0 SQL Server.
They now return:
pub_name
-----------------------------
Algodata Infosystems

> all and < all When the Subquery Matches No Rows

When a subquery using the > all or < all predicate matches no rows,
the subquery should evaluate to TRUE. Instead, it evaluated to FALSE
in pre-10.0 SQL Server. For example, using the pubs2 database:
select title
from titles
where advance > all
(select advance
from publishers, titles
where titles.pub_id = publishers.pub_id
and pub_name = ‘No Such Publisher’)
This query returned no rows. It now returns all of the rows, the
correct result.

Correlated Subqueries Suppressing Duplicates from Outer Query

A correlated subquery returning a data value to the outer query

sometimes caused the outer query to fail to return duplicate rows if
all of the columns in the outer query are also used in the subquery.
For example, using the pubs2 database:
select pub_id,
(select count(*)
from publishers
where publishers.pub_id = titles.pub_id)
from titles

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In previous versions, this query returned these results:

pub_id
------ -----------
0736 5
0877 7
1389 6
It now returns:
pub_id
------ -----------
1389 6
1389 6
0736 5
1389 6
0877 7
0877 7
0877 7
1389 6
1389 6
1389 6
0877 7
0736 5
0736 5
0736 5
0736 5
0877 7
0877 7
0877 7

Aggregate Queries with exists Subqueries

A query that selects an aggregate and has a correlated subquery that

uses the exists predicate produced the wrong answer if the table in the
subquery’s from list had duplicates. For example, using the pubs2
database:
select count(*)
from publishers
where exists
(select *
from titles
where titles.pub_id = publishers.pub_id)
In pre-10.0 SQL Server, this query returned the value 18. It now
returns the correct response, 3. It is similar to the first problem in this
discussion, as it has to do with duplicates in an “existence-type”
subquery to cause duplicates in the outer query.

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Correlated Subqueries Using distinct and the in Predicate

A correlated subquery introduced with the in predicate and having a

select distinct in the subquery previously returned no rows. For
example, using the pubs2 database:
select pub_name
from publishers
where pub_id in
(select distinct pub_id
from titles
where pub_id = publishers.pub_id)
This query returned no rows in pre-10.0 SQL Server. It now returns:
pub_name
----------------------------------------
New Age Books
Binnet & Hardley
Algodata Infosystems

(3 rows affected)

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3 3. Changes in SQL Server
Releases 4.8, 4.9, and 4.9.1

Introduction
This chapter lists the changes to Releases 4.8, 4.9, and 4.9.1 of SQL
Server. This information is provided mainly as a convenience for
customers who have not upgraded to one of these earlier versions.

Summary of Changes, SQL Server Release 4.8

This summary describes the significant changes in SQL Server
Release 4.8.

Fast create database for Database Recovery

The new for load option for the create database command speeds up
database creation for recovery from media failure or for moving
databases. See create database in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference
Manual, or the System Administration Guide.

union Operator

Transact-SQL now provides the union operator. It allows you to

combine the results of two or more queries into a single result set. See
union in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual.

New “Not Equals” Operator

The new negative comparison operator <> (not equal to) is the same
as the != operator. See “Expressions” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server
Reference Manual.

New Datatypes

smallmoney, smalldatetime, and real are smaller versions of money,

datetime, and float, respectively. They require 4 bytes of storage, rather
than the 8 bytes required by their larger counterparts. See
“Datatypes” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual.

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Quoted Strings in Column Headings

Except in create table, create view, and select into statements, column
headings now can include any characters, including blanks and SQL
Server keywords, if the column heading is enclosed in quotes.

International Features

SQL Server Release 4.8 contains all of the enhancements featured in

SQL Server Release 4.2, the International Release. See the System
Administration Guide and the System Administration Guide Supplement
for your platform, the indexed entries in SQL Server Reference Manual,
and Transact-SQL User's Guide, for more information on these
features.

System Tables for Alternate Language Support

SQL Server now supports multiple alternate languages
simultaneously, through new tables, syscharsets and syslanguages,
and new columns, langid (sysmessages), language (syslogins), csid, and
soid (sysindexes).

New Utility Program

The langinstall utility program installs alternate languages on a server.
See the SQL Server Utility Programs manual for your operating
system.

Changed Utility Programs

bcp, defncopy, and isql now support alternate languages and non-ISO
8859-1 terminals. The console program, discontinued in Release 10.0,
also supported alternative languages in earlier releases. See the SQL
Server Utility Programs manual for your operating system.

New Transact-SQL set Command Options

datefirst, dateformat, and language options to the set command change the
first weekday, date input format, and alternate language in the
current session. See set in Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference
Manual.

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Configuration Variables
See sp_configure in Volume 2 of the SQL Server Reference Manual for
information about these new configuration options.

New Global Variables

@@language is the name of the language currently in use. @@langid is
the number of the language currently in use.

New System Procedures

sp_addlanguage, sp_defaultlanguage, sp_droplanguage, sp_helplanguage, and
sp_setlangalias manage alternate languages.
sp_checknames reports names of objects that contain characters outside
the 7-bit ASCII character set.
sp_helpsort reports the server’s default sort order.
sp_recompile recompiles a table’s stored procedures and triggers.

Changed System Procedures

sp_addlogin now assigns a default language when adding a user.

Alternate Sort Order Support

SQL Server can now be installed with a sort order other than the
standard binary sort.

Symmetric Multiprocessor Features

Release 4.8 of the SQL Server is explicitly designed to take full

advantage of the capabilities of symmetric multiprocessor (SMP)
systems. See Chapter 14, ‘‘Managing Multiprocessor Servers’’, in the
System Administration Guide and the System Administration Guide
Supplement for your platform for more information.

Changes to System Tables

A new system table, sysengines, allows the System Administrator to

monitor engines in the SMP environment.
Four system tables, sysconfigures, sysindexes, syslocks, and sysprocesses,
have been modified for SMP.

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New Built-In Functions

Four new built-in Transact-SQL functions give information about

page allocations to a table or index. sp_spaceused uses these functions
to provide information about database space utilization. The
functions are: data_pgs, reserved_pgs, used_pgs, and rowcnt.

Changes to Error Log Format

Error log entries now show the engine involved for each log entry.
The date format is now yy/mm/dd.
The time is now displayed in 24-hour format.
Seconds and hundredths of a second have been added to the time
format.

New Configuration Variables

The following configuration variables were added in 4.8:

default sortorder
default language
language in cache
max online engines
min online engines
See sp_configure in Volume 2 of the SQL Server Reference Manual or the
System Administration Guide for more information.

Summary of Changes, SQL Server Release 4.9

This summary lists the significant product changes for Release 4.9 of
SQL Server:
• A wide set of changes to support multibyte character sets
• New options to the dbcc command

Multibyte Character Set Features

SQL Server now supports multibyte character sets, including EUC-JIS,

SHIFT-JIS, and DEC-Kanji, for use in Asian installations. The

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following changes and features were introduced to provide flexible

language support, but some of them, such as the print/raiserror changes
and the message-related system procedures, have much wider
applications for SQL Server users.

Character Set Conversion

SQL Server supports conversion among a variety of character sets.
Character set conversion is initiated using set char_convert within a
session or by using the -J flag with the utilities bcp, defncopy, and isql.

Changing Sort Orders and Character Sets

The System Administrator can now change the default, installed sort
order, or character set used by SQL Server. See the System
Administration Guide Supplement for your platform.

New Datatypes
The national character datatypes nchar and nvarchar allow a user to
define a column length as containing a specific number of multibyte
characters. The number of bytes in a character is contained in the
new global variable @@ncharsize. See “Datatypes” in Volume 1 of the
SQL Server Reference Manual.

New System Table

The table sysusermessages, in all databases, stores user-defined
messages for user stored procedures. Messages can be added to this
table with the new sp_addmessage system procedure and dropped
with sp_dropmessage. Messages can be retrieved with sp_getmessage.
Combined with the enhancements to print and raiserror described
below, application designers can now easily make their stored
procedures produce error messages in a user’s default language.

Enhancements to print and raiserror

print and raiserror now recognize formatted output with arguments.
Format strings can contain up to 20 unique place holders in any
order. To allow reordering of the arguments when format strings are
translated to a language with a different grammatical structure, the
place holders are numbered. See print or raiserror in Volume 1 of the
SQL Server Reference Manual.

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Changed String Function

patindex string function now returns a value in bytes or in characters
representing the starting position of the specified character
expression. See “String Functions” in Volume 1 of the SQL Server
Reference Manual.

New Functions
valid_name determines whether a string is legal for use in an identifier.
char_length determines the number of characters in a character
expression.
These functions are documented under “String Functions” in
Volume 1 of the SQL Server Reference Manual.

New Global Variables

@@char_convert indicates whether character set conversion is in
effect.
@@client_csname contains the client’s character set name.
@@client_csid contains the client’s character set ID.
@@maxcharlen contains the maximum length of a multibyte character
in SQL Server’s default character set.
@@ncharsize contains the average length, in bytes, of a national
character.

Configuration Variables
The configuration variable default character set id specifies the number
of the default character set SQL Server uses. See sp_configure in
Volume 2 of the SQL Server Reference Manual or Chapter 12, ‘‘Fine-
Tuning Performance and Operations’’, in the System Administration
Guide for more information.

New System Procedures

sp_indsuspect determines whether an index needs to be rebuilt after a
sort order change.
sp_addmessage, sp_getmessage, and sp_dropmessage manage user-defined
messages for use in stored procedures.

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dbcc Command Enhancements

dbcc (Database Consistency Checker) has two new options for use
when SQL Server’s sort order or character set is changed: dbcc reindex
and dbcc fix_text. dbcc reindex checks and rebuilds character indexes
which may have been invalidated by a sort order change. dbcc fix_text
calculates the statistics needed to manage text values after changing
to a multibyte character set.

Summary of Changes, SQL Server Release 4.9.1

This summary lists the significant product changes for Release 4.9.1
of SQL Server. Release 4.9.1 is a maintenance release.

dbcc Command Enhancements

dbcc (Database Consistency Checker) has two new options to use

when checking database integrity: dbcc tablealloc and dbcc indexalloc.
They perform the same checks as dbcc checkalloc but on individual
tables and indexes. These options provide faster consistency
checking, and can automatically correct certain kinds of consistency
problems. For more information see Chapter 11, ‘‘Diagnosing
System Problems’’ in the System Administration Guide.

New System Procedures

sp_syntax displays the syntax of Transact-SQL statements, system

procedures, utilities, and DB-Library™ routines. (For Release 10.0,
Client Library is also included.) See the System Administration Guide
Supplement for information on installing the sybsyntax database and
Volume 2 of the SQL Server Reference Manual for information on using
the sp_syntax system procedure.
Twelve new system procedures allow users easy access to
information about database gateways as well as SQL Server. These
stored procedures are compatible with the catalog interface for the
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API. The procedures are:
sp_column_privileges, sp_columns, sp_databases, sp_datatype_info, sp_fkeys,
sp_pkeys, sp_server_info, sp_sproc_columns, sp_statistics,
sp_stored_procedures, sp_table_privileges, sp_tables. See Volume 2 of the
SQL Server Reference Manual for information on using these
procedures.

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Configuration Variable

The new configuration variable stack size specifies the size of SQL
Server’s stack. See Volume 2 of the SQL Server Reference Manual or
Chapter 12, ‘‘Fine-Tuning Performance and Operations’’, in the
System Administration Guide.

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 Index
Symbols Batches and create view 1-10
bcp utility 1-21
- (minus signs) between predicate change 1-15, 2-12
as comment marker 1-17, 2-12 Built-in functions
@@char_convert global variable 3-6 overview 1-27
@@client_csname global variable 3-6 Bulk copy 1-24
@@identity global variable 1-11
@@langid global variable 3-3
@@language global variable 3-3 C
@@maxcharlen global variable 3-6
@@ncharsize global variable 3-5, 3-6 cascade option to revoke command 1-21
@@transtate global variable 1-13 Catalog stored procedures 1-2, 3-7
Chained transactions 1-19, 2-14
char_length 3-6
A Character set
conversion 3-5, 3-6
abort tran on log full
name 3-6
sp_dboption 1-31
Character set default 3-6
Aggregate functions 1-20
Character string truncation 1-15, 1-20
column headings and 1-15
Chargeback accounting 1-21
all predicate 2-21
Check constraints 1-9
allow nulls by default
close 1-9
sp_dboption 1-31
col_name function 1-27
alter table 1-9
Collating sequence 1-24
Alternate languages 3-2
Column
ANSI compatibility
alias 1-15
set options for 1-16
headings 1-15, 2-15, 3-2
any predicate 2-20
Comments, ANSI-style 1-17, 2-12
arithabort option
Configuration variables. See sp_configure
numeric_truncation 2-11
console utility program 1-4, 3-2
as keyword 1-15
Constraints 1-9
Auditing 1-8
Conversion
system tables 1-32
changes 1-14
auto identity
error message 2-11
sp_dboption 1-31
functions 1-27
convert changes 2-8
B Correlated subqueries 2-21 to 2-23
Correlation names 2-16
Backup changes 2-6 create database 3-1
Backup Server utility 1-4 create index 1-23
shutting down 1-22 create schema 1-10
Batch size limits 1-13 create table 1-9

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create view 1-10 skip_ncindex option 1-22

and batches 1-10 dbcc indexalloc 3-7
and distinct 1-10 dbcc tablealloc 3-7
with check option 1-10 ddl in tran
Cursors 1-9 sp_dboption 1-12, 1-32
deallocate 1-9
decimal datatype 1-10
D declare cursor 1-9
Data definition language in Default character set 3-6
transactions 1-12 default character set id configuration
data_pgs function 3-4 variable 3-6
Databases Default language 3-3
limit of 1-3 default language configuration option 3-4
master 1-2 Default sort order 3-3
sybsystemprocs 1-2 default sortorder configuration option 3-4
Datatypes 1-14, 2-8 Default type changes 2-9
bit 1-15 Defaults 1-9
char varying 1-11 delete 1-9
character 1-11 Display format changes 2-8
conversion 1-14 distinct
dec 1-11 in subqueries 2-23
decimal 1-10, 1-11 in views 1-10
default length 1-10 double precision datatype 1-10
double precision 1-10, 1-11 Dump commands
float 1-10, 1-11 and variables 1-6
hierarchy 1-14 dump database 1-5
hierarchy changes 2-9 changes 2-6
national char 1-11 Dump script changes 2-6
national char varying 1-11 Dump striping 1-4
national character 1-11 dump transaction 1-5
national character varying 1-11 changes 2-6
nchar 3-5 Duplicate rows 2-21
nchar varying 1-11 Dynamic SQL support 1-15
numeric 1-10
nvarchar 3-5
real 3-1
E
smalldatetime 3-1 Equality comparisons 1-20
smallmoney 3-1 Error handling 1-23
Date input format 3-2 Error logs 3-4
dbcc checkalloc escape clause and like 1-17
fix option 1-22 exists predicate 2-22
dbcc checkdb
skip_ncindex option 1-22
dbcc checktable

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F Identifying users 1-8

identity property 1-11
fetch 1-9
in predicate 2-20
FIPS Flagger 1-17 Index enhancements 1-23
float datatype 1-10
index_col function 1-27
Floating point conversions 2-11 Inequality comparisons 1-20
for load option to create database 3-1
Installing SQL Server 1-2
from clause 2-15
Integer conversions 2-11
Functions
Integrity constraints 1-9
Aggregate and column headings 1-15
Interfaces file 1-2
hextoint 1-14
inttohex function 1-14, 1-27
inttohex 1-14
Isolation levels 1-19
lct_admin 1-6
isql utility 1-21, 2-8
overview 1-27
rand 1-15
K
G Keywords
finding existing 2-2
Global variables
new 1-18, 2-2
@@char_convert 3-6 kill command changes 1-22
@@client_csname 3-6
@@identity 1-11
@@langid 3-3 L
@@language 3-3
@@maxcharlen 3-6 langinstall utility program 3-2
@@ncharsize 3-5, 3-6 language in cache configuration option 3-4
@@transtate 1-13 Languages
grant command adding 3-3
roles and 1-21 aliases 3-3
in transactions 1-12 alternate 3-2
with grant option 1-21 dropping 3-3
group by clause 1-15 help 3-3
installing 3-2
Last-chance threshold 1-6
H lct_admin function 1-6, 1-27
Load commands
Hex conversion functions 1-14, 1-27
and variables 1-6
hextoint function 1-14
load database 1-5
load transaction 1-5
I Log segments 1-6
Login account locking 1-8
Identifiers
delimited 1-19
finding reserved words 2-2 M
quoted 1-19 master database 1-2

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Master device recovery 2-5 length 1-8, 2-3

master..syslocks system table 1-33 null 2-3
max online engines configuration option 3-4 patindex 3-6
min online engines configuration option 3-4 Permissions
Modifying SQL Server 1-2 changes to 1-20
money datatype 2-10 system procedures 2-3
Monitoring space 1-5 Precompiler support 1-15
Moving system procedures 1-3 Primary key constraints 1-9
Multibyte character sets 3-4 print arguments 3-5
length 3-6 privileges 1-18
Multi-file dumps 1-4 proc_role function 1-27

N Q
nchar datatype 3-5 Query optimizer 1-24
Network dumps 1-4
no free space acctg
sp_dboption 1-32 R
not in predicate 2-20 raiserror 1-23
Null device 2-6 arguments 3-5
NULL operands 1-20 rand function 1-15
Numeric conversions 2-11 real datatype 3-1
numeric datatype 1-10 Recompiling stored procedures 3-3
Numeric literals 2-9 Recovery changes, master device 2-5
nvarchar datatype 3-5 Referential integrity constraints 1-9
Remote access 2-5
Repeated table names 2-15
O reserved_pgs function 3-4
object_name function 1-27 revoke command
open 1-9 in transactions 1-12
open databases configuration variable 2-3 cascade option 1-21
Open databases, limit of 2-5 roles and 1-21
Operator role 1-7 Roles 1-7, 2-14
Optimizer changes 1-24 rollback trigger 1-13
Overflow conditions, conversion rowcnt function 3-4
changes 2-10

S
P Schemas 1-10
Packet size, configuring 1-21, 1-24 Security 1-6
Passwords Segments
aging 2-3 thresholds 1-5
encryption 1-8 select into 1-15, 2-15
expiration 1-8 Self-recursive triggers 1-13

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set ansinull 1-20 cpu flush 1-21, 1-30

set arithabort 1-18 default language 3-3, 3-4
set arithignore 1-18 default network packet size 1-30
set chained mode 1-19 default sortorder 3-4
set char_convert 3-5 default sortorder id 3-3
set datefirst 3-2 extent i/o buffers 1-23, 1-30
set dateformat 3-2 i/o flush 1-21, 1-31
set dup_in_subquery 2-19 identity burning set factor 1-31
set fipsflag 1-17 language in cache 3-3, 3-4
set isolation level 1-19 max online engines 3-4
set language 3-2 maximum network packet size 1-31
set options overview 1-25 min online engines 3-4
set quoted identifier 1-20 password expiration interval 1-31
set self_recursion 1-13 password expiration level 2-3
set showplan 1-26 remote access 2-5
set string_rtruncation 1-16, 1-20 stack size 3-8
show_role function 1-27 sp_configurelogin 1-28
shutdown command changes 1-22 sp_cursorinfo 1-9, 1-28
Size limits for objects 1-13 sp_dboption 1-31
smalldatetime datatype 3-1 ddl in tran 1-12
smallmoney datatype 2-10, 3-1 and thresholds 1-6
some 1-18 sp_dbremap 1-28
Sort order 1-24 sp_defaultdb 1-30
help 3-3 sp_defaultlanguage 1-30, 3-3
Sort order changes sp_displaylogin 1-28
and indexes 3-6 sp_dropmessage 3-6
sp_addauditrecord 1-28 sp_dropsegment 1-30
sp_addlanguage 3-3 sp_dropthreshold 1-5, 1-28
sp_addlogin 3-3 sp_estspace 1-28
sp_addmessage 3-6 sp_extendsegment 1-30
sp_addsegment 1-30 sp_getmessage 3-6
sp_addthreshold 1-5, 1-28 sp_helpconstraint 1-9, 1-28
sp_auditdatabase 1-28 sp_helpdb 1-23, 1-30
sp_auditlogin 1-28 sp_helpsegment 1-23, 1-30
sp_auditobject 1-28 sp_helpsort 3-3
sp_auditoption 1-28 sp_helpthreshold 1-5, 1-28
sp_auditsproc 1-28 sp_indsuspect 3-6
sp_bindmsg 1-28 sp_lock 1-30
sp_checknames 3-3 sp_locklogin 1-29
sp_checkreswords 1-28, 2-2 sp_modifylogin 1-29
sp_clearstats 1-21, 1-29 sp_modifythreshold 1-5, 1-29
sp_configure 1-21 sp_password 2-3
additional netmem 1-30 sp_procxmode 1-29, 2-14
audit queue size 1-30 sp_recompile 3-3

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sp_remap 1-29 System Administrator role 1-7, 2-14

sp_reportstats 1-21, 1-29 System databases 1-2 to 1-3
sp_role 1-29 System procedures 1-2
sp_setlangalias 3-3 sp_addauditrecord 1-28
sp_spaceused 3-4 sp_addlanguage 3-3
sp_syntax 3-7 sp_addsegment 1-30
sp_thresholdaction 1-6, 1-29 sp_addthreshold 1-5, 1-28
sp_unbindmsg 1-29 sp_auditdatabase 1-28
sp_volchanged 1-4, 1-29 sp_auditlogin 1-28
sp_who 1-30 sp_auditobject 1-28
changes 1-22 sp_auditoption 1-28
Space available 1-23 sp_auditsproc 1-28
Space monitoring 1-5 sp_bindmsg 1-28
Spanish sort order 1-24 sp_checknames 3-3
stack size configuration variable 3-8 sp_checkreswords 1-28, 2-2
Stored procedures sp_clearstats 1-21, 1-29
moving 2-4 sp_configurelogin 1-28
recompiling 3-3 sp_cursorinfo 1-9, 1-28
size limits 1-13 sp_dbremap 1-28
thresholds 1-5 sp_defaultdb 1-30
Subqueries 1-14, 2-17 to 2-23 sp_defaultlanguage 1-30, 3-3
and correlation names 2-17 sp_displaylogin 1-28
Suspect indexes 3-6 sp_droplanguage 3-3
syb_identity keyword 1-11 sp_dropsegment 1-30
sybinit 1-2 sp_dropthreshold 1-5, 1-28
sybsecurity database 1-8, 1-32 sp_estspace 1-28
sybsystemprocs database 1-2, 2-3 sp_extendsegment 1-30
Symmetric multiprocessor features 3-3 sp_helpconstraint 1-9, 1-28
sysauditoptions system table 1-32 sp_helpdb 1-30
sysaudits system table 1-8, 1-32 sp_helplanguage 3-3
syscharsets system table 3-2 sp_helpsegment 1-30
syscolumns system table 1-33 sp_helpsort 3-3
syscomments system table 1-13, 1-33 sp_helpthreshold 1-5, 1-28
sysconfigures system table 3-3 sp_lock 1-30
sysdatabases system table 1-33 sp_locklogin 1-29
sysengines system table 3-3 sp_modifylogin 1-29
sysindexes system table 1-33, 3-2, 3-3 sp_modifythreshold 1-29
syslanguages system table 3-2 sp_password 2-3
syslocks system table 3-3 sp_procxmode 1-29, 2-14
syslogins system table 1-8, 1-33, 3-2 sp_recompile 3-3
sysmessages system table 1-33, 3-2 sp_remap 1-29
sysobjects system table 1-33 sp_reportstats 1-21, 1-29
sysprocesses system table 1-33, 3-3 sp_role 1-29
sysprotects system table 1-33 sp_setlangalias 3-3

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sp_thresholdaction 1-6, 1-29 V

sp_unbindmsg 1-29
valid_name 3-6
sp_volchanged 1-4, 1-29
sp_who 1-30
Variables, configuration. See sp_configure
Views 1-10
System Security Officer role 1-7
System tables 1-32, 1-33
systypes system table 1-33 W
sysusages system table 1-33
sysusermessages system table 3-5 with check option clause 1-10
with grant option to grant command 1-21
work 1-18
T
Tables
IDENTITY columns 1-11
Tapes
and Backup Server 2-6
labelling and handling 1-4
Threshold Manager 1-5
Transaction state information 1-13
Transactions
data definition language and 1-12
isolation levels and 1-19
modes 1-19
Transact-SQL extensions 1-17
Triggers
recompiling 3-3
and rollback trigger 1-13
self-recursion 1-13
Truncation
character string 1-15, 1-20
conversion changes 2-11

U
union operator 3-1
Unique constraints 1-9
update 1-9, 2-15
update statistics 1-24
Upgrading SQL Server 1-2
used_pgs function 3-4
user function 1-27
User-defined messages 3-6

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