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"ALTER FUNCTION" - Modifying Existing Functions in SQL Server
How To Modify an Existing User Defined Function in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If you find a mistake in an existing function previously created, you can drop (delete) it and create it again correctly. But dropping a function may affect other database objects who are depending on this function. So the b...
2016-12-18, 2475🔥, 0💬

CREATE INDEX - Impact on Other User Sessions in SQL Server
What Is the Impact on Other User Sessions When Creating Indexes in SQL Server? If you are creating a new index on a table with existing data, all existing rows will be indexed as part of the CREATE INDEX statement. If the table is large, the indexing process could take some time. The impact of this ...
2016-11-08, 2475🔥, 0💬

BETWEEN - Testing Value in a Range in SQL Server
What To Test Value Ranges with the BETWEEN Operator in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Sometimes you want to compare a value against a value range. You can do this with two regular comparison operations. But you can also use the special comparison operator BETWEEN to get it done with the following syntaxes...
2017-01-21, 2473🔥, 0💬

What Is a SELECT Query Statement in SQL Server
What Is a SELECT Query Statement in SQL Server? The SELECT statement is also called the query statement. It is the most frequently used SQL statement in any database application. SELECT statements allows you to retrieve data from one or more tables or views, with different selection criteria, groupi...
2016-10-26, 2472🔥, 0💬

Creating Triggers for INSERT Statements Only in SQL Server
How To Create a Trigger for INSERT Only in SQL Server? The trigger, dml_message, provided in previous tutorials was defined to handle all 3 types of DML statements, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. If you do not want the trigger to handle all 3 types of DML statements, you can list only 1 or 2 of the sta...
2016-10-24, 2471🔥, 0💬

Installing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition in SQL Server
How to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition in SQL Server? Once you have downloaded SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, you should follow this tutorial to install it on your system: 1. Double click SQLEXPR.EXE. The setup window shows up. 2. Click Next to let the setup program to unpack all files fro...
2016-12-08, 2470🔥, 0💬

"CREATE VIEW/PROCEDURE" Statements - Creating a View and a Stored Procedure in SQL Server
How to create a view and a stored procedure using "CREATE VIEW/PROCEDURE" statements in SQL Server? This is the third tutorial of a quick lesson on creating login and configure users for databases with Transact-SQL statements. Granting a user access to a database involves three steps. First, you cre...
2016-11-27, 2464🔥, 0💬

Numeric Expressions and Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL
Where to find answers to frequently asked questions on Numeric Expressions and Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team on Numeric Expressions and Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL. Clear answers are pr...
2017-04-01, 2461🔥, 0💬

Understanding and Managing Views in SQL Server
Where to find answers to frequently asked questions on Understanding and Managing Views in SQL Server? Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team on Understanding and Managing Views in SQL Server. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercis...
2016-11-08, 2460🔥, 0💬

Declaring and Using Cursor Variables in SQL Server
How To Declare and Use Cursor Variables in SQL Server Transact-SQL? There are two ways to representing a cursor: 1. A cursor name - A static name representing a cursor object. A cursor name should be linked to a cursor object in the DECLARE statement. 2. A cursor variable name - A variable name poin...
2016-10-17, 2454🔥, 0💬

Using ORDER BY with UNION Operators in SQL Server
How To Use ORDER BY with UNION Operators in SQL Server? If you need to sort the output from two queries grouped together with a UNION operator, you need to apply the ORDER BY clause at the group level, not at the subquery level. Note that SQL Server and MySQL react differently to the ORDER BY clause...
2016-10-26, 2453🔥, 0💬

Inserting Multiple Rows with One INSERT Statement in SQL Server
How To Insert Multiple Rows with One INSERT Statement in SQL Server? If you want to insert multiple rows with a single INSERT statement, you can use a subquery instead of the VALUES clause. Rows returned from the subquery will be inserted the target table. The following tutorial exercise gives you a...
2016-11-02, 2450🔥, 0💬

Database Engine Tutorials from SQL Server 2005 Books Online
How to use Transact-SQL statements to access the database engine in SQL Server? Transact-SQL statements can be used to access the database engine directly. Here are some good tutorials provided by the SQL Server 2005 Books Online. See the SQL Server 2005 Tutorials &gt; Database Engine Tutorials ...
2016-11-27, 2448🔥, 0💬

Differences between Functions and Stored Procedures in SQL Server
What Are the Differences between User Defined Functions and Stored Procedures in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Differences between user defined functions and stored procedures are: Stored procedures does not return any data and they can not be used in expressions. User defined functions does return data ...
2016-12-24, 2444🔥, 0💬

Configuring ODBC DSN with Different Port Numbers
How To Configure ODBC DSN with Different Port Numbers? If your SQL Server is not using the default port number, like 1269, you need to set the port number to the correct value during the ODBC DSN creation process, as show in this tutorial: 1. Start ODBC Data Source Administrator and click System DSN...
2024-07-25, 2442🔥, 0💬

"CREATE TABLE" Statement - Creating New Tables in SQL Server
How to create new table with "CREATE TABLE" statements in SQL Server? This is the second tutorial of a quick lesson on creating database objects with Transact-SQL statements. This lesson shows you how to create a database, create a table in the database, and then access and change the data in the ta...
2016-12-02, 2438🔥, 0💬

Defining the Name and Server for a new DSN
How To Define the Name and Server for a new DSN? Continuing from the previous tutorial, on the first screen of the "Create a New Data Source to SQL Server" wizard, you should enter 3 fields: Name, Description, and Server as suggested below: Name: FYI_SQL_SERVER Description: FYIcenter.com SQL Server ...
2024-08-06, 2435🔥, 0💬

Verify Time Precision in SQL Server Transact-SQL
How to verify the precession of the server system time in SQL Server Transact-SQL? You can run a WHILE loop to check the precision of server system time in Transact-SQL as shown below: DECLARE @var DATETIME2(7); DECLARE @count INT = 0; WHILE @count&lt;100 BEGIN SET @count = @count + 1; SET @var ...
2017-02-22, 2435🔥, 0💬

Performing Comparison on Exact Numbers in SQL Server
How To Perform Comparison on Exact Numbers in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Comparison operations on exact numbers of data types: BIT, INT, NUMERIC, etc., are very easy to understand. Here are some simple examples: -- BIT value comparison DECLARE @x BIT, @y BIT; SET @x = 0; SET @y = 1; SELECT CASE WHEN @...
2017-01-21, 2433🔥, 0💬

SET Statements in SQL Server Transact-SQL
How to assign value to a variable in SQL Server Transact-SQL? How to use the SET statements? In Transact-SQL, you can use SET statements to assign values to variables using the assignment operator =, in the syntax of: SET @variable = &lt;value&gt; When an SET statement is executed, the syste...
2017-04-04, 2432🔥, 0💬

What Are Stored Procedures in SQL Server
What Are Stored Procedures in SQL Server Transact-SQL? A stored procedure is a collection of Transact-SQL statements that stored in the SQL Server. A stored procedure can be executed later with an EXEC statement. SQL Server supports stored procedures with the following features: 1. Stored procedures...
2017-01-11, 2429🔥, 0💬

ALTER VIEW - Modifying Existing Views in SQL Server
How To Modify the Underlying Query of an Existing View in SQL Server? If you have an existing view, and want to change the underlying SELECT statement, you can use the "ALTER VIEW ..." statement to redefine the view. The tutorial exercise below shows you how modify an existing view: USE FyiCenterDat...
2016-11-04, 2428🔥, 0💬

"INSERT INTO" - Inserting a New Row into a Table in SQL Server
How To Insert a New Row into a Table with "INSERT INTO" Statements in SQL Server? To insert a new row into a table, you can use the INSERT INTO statement with values specified for all columns as in the following syntax: INSERT INTO table_name VALUES (list_of_values_of_all columns) Note that the list...
2016-11-03, 2426🔥, 0💬

Date-Only DATETIME Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What Happens If Date-Only Values Are Provided for DATETIME in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If only date value is provided in a DATETIME variable, the SQL Server will pad the time value with a zero, or '00:00:00.000', representing the midnight time of the day. The tutorial exercise below gives you some g...
2017-04-08, 2422🔥, 0💬

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