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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, 2576🔥, 0💬

"DROP PROCEDURE" - Dropping an Existing Procedure in SQL Server
How To Drop an Existing Stored Procedure in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If you have an existing procedure that you don't want to use it anymore, you should delete it from the SQL Server by using the "DROP PROCEDURE" statement as shown in the tutorial example below: USE FyiCenterData; GO DROP PROCEDURE ...
2017-01-05, 2575🔥, 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, 2573🔥, 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, 2572🔥, 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, 2572🔥, 0💬

What Is Variable in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What is a variable in SQL Server Transact-SQL? A variable in Transact-SQL is a symbolic name representing a memory storage that holds a piece of data. A variable has the following the components: 1. Variable name - A symbolic name to represent the variable. Variable names in Transact-SQL must starts...
2017-04-22, 2569🔥, 0💬

Triggers with Multiple Affected Rows in SQL Server
What Happens to a Trigger with Multiple Affected Rows in SQL Server? If there is only one row affected by a DML statement, we know that the DML trigger will be executed once. But how many times the DML trigger will be executed if the DML statement resulted multiple affected rows? The answer is still...
2016-10-24, 2569🔥, 0💬

Using SELECT Statements and GROUP BY Clauses in SQL Server
Where to find answers to frequently asked questions on Using SELECT Statements and GROUP BY Clauses in SQL Server? Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team on Using SELECT Statements and GROUP BY Clauses in SQL Server. Clear answers are provid...
2016-10-26, 2568🔥, 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, 2563🔥, 0💬

Who Is the Owner of a Schema in SQL Server
Who Is the Owner of a Schema in SQL Server? When you create a schema in a database, SQL Server will assign a owner (a database user) to this schema. If your login name is mapped to the owner of a schema at the database level, you have the full permission on all objects in this schema. The following ...
2016-10-22, 2561🔥, 0💬

Using Cursors in SQL Server Transact-SQL
Where to find answers to frequently asked questions on Using Cursors in SQL Server Transact-SQL? I want to loop through rows in a result set. Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team on Using Cursors in SQL Server Transact-SQL. Clear explanati...
2016-10-17, 2560🔥, 0💬

Creating Databases with Specified Physical Files in SQL Server
How to create database with physical files specified in SQL Server? If you don't like the default behavior of the CREATE DATABASE statement, you can specify the physical database files with a longer statement: CREATE DATABASE database_name ON (NAME = logical_data_name, FILENAME = physical_data_name,...
2016-11-24, 2558🔥, 0💬

Differences of CHAR and NCHAR in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What Are the Differences between CHAR and NCHAR in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Both CHAR and NCHAR are fixed length data types in Transact-SQL. But they have the following main differences: CHAR stores characters based on the code page with 1 byte per character most of the time. NCHAR stores characters...
2017-04-04, 2551🔥, 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, 2551🔥, 0💬

PHP ODBC - Including Date and Time Values in SQL Statements
PHP ODBC - How To Include Date and Time Values in SQL Statements? If you want to provide date and time values in a SQL statement, you should write them in the format of "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss", and quoted with single quotes ('). The tutorial exercise below shows you two INSERT statements. The first on...
2024-05-05, 2545🔥, 0💬

Difference Between Clustered and Non-Clustered Indexes in SQL Server
What Is the Difference Between Clustered and Non-Clustered Indexes in SQL Server? SQL Server 2005 supports two types of indexes: clustered index and non-clustered index. Here are the main differences between them: One table can only have only one clustered index. One table can only have many non-clu...
2016-11-13, 2541🔥, 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, 2540🔥, 0💬

PHP MSSQL - Query Multiple Tables Jointly
PHP MSSQL - How To Query Multiple Tables Jointly? If you want to query information stored in multiple tables, you can use the SELECT statement with a WHERE condition to make an inner join. Assuming that you have 3 tables in a forum system: "users" for user profile, "forums" for forums information, a...
2024-02-09, 2536🔥, 0💬

Deleting All Rows with TRUNCATE TABLE Statement in SQL Server
How To Delete All Rows with TRUNCATE TABLE Statement in SQL Server? If you want to delete all rows from a table, you have two options: Use the DELETE statement with no WHERE clause. Use the TRUNCATE TABLE statement. The TRUNCATE statement is more efficient the DELETE statement. The tutorial exercise...
2016-10-30, 2535🔥, 0💬

UNIQUE Constraint Creating Default Index in SQL Server
Does the UNIQUE Constraint Create an Index in SQL Server? If you add the UNIQUE constraint on a column, SQL Server will automatically add a non-clustered index for that column. The tutorial exercise below shows you the index created as part of the UNIQUE column, "id", of "fyi_links": USE FyiCenterDa...
2016-11-13, 2531🔥, 0💬

"CREATE TRIGGER" - Creating a DDL Trigger in SQL Server
How To Create a DDL Trigger using "CREATE TRIGGER" Statements in SQL Server? A DDL trigger is defined to handle a DDL statement event, like create, alter and drop tables, views, indexes, etc. DDL triggers can be used to generate warning messages on database object changes. The format of creating a D...
2016-10-22, 2525🔥, 0💬

Converting Numeric Expressions from One Data Type to Another in SQL Server
How To Convert a Numeric Expression from One Data Type to Another in SQL Server Transact-SQL? There are 4 ways to convert a numeric expression from one data type to another data type: Implicit conversion by arithmetic operations - When arithmetic operations are performed on expressions of different ...
2017-03-27, 2524🔥, 0💬

What Is a Table in SQL Server
What is a table in SQL Server? A table in database is a data object used to store data. Tables have the following features: Data is stored in a table with a structure of rows and columns. Columns must be pre-defined with names, types and constrains. A table object may have other associated data obje...
2016-11-20, 2524🔥, 0💬

Testing Table for SELECT Statements in SQL Server
How To Create a Testing Table with Test Data to try with SELECT statements in SQL Server? If you want to follow the tutorial exercises presented in this collection, you need to create a testing table and insert some test data, as shown in the following sample script: CREATE TABLE fyi_links (id INTEG...
2016-10-26, 2524🔥, 0💬

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