How does one cause a delay in execution for a specified number of seconds?
This doesn’t do it:
WAITFOR DELAY '00:02';
What is the correct format?
How does one cause a delay in execution for a specified number of seconds?
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How does one cause a delay in execution for a specified number of seconds?
This doesn’t do it:
WAITFOR DELAY '00:02';
What is the correct format?
The documentation for
WAITFOR()doesn’t explicitly lay out the required string format.This will wait for 2 seconds:
The format is
hh:mi:ss.mmm.