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Subtracting a DATETIME Value from Another DATETIME Value in SQL Server
Can a DATETIME Value Be Subtracted from Another DATETIME Value in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Can a datetime value be subtracted from another datetime value? The answer is yes. The subtract operation can be performed by the subtract operator (-) as: datetime1 - datetime2: Returning a DATETIME value cal...
2017-02-20, 2971🔥, 0💬

Getting Month and Weekday Names from DATATIME Values in SQL Server
How To Get Month and Weekday Names from DATETIME Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL? In DATETIME values, the month part and weekday part have names. You can use the DATENAME() function to get the month name and weekday name from a DATETIME value in the following format: DATENAME(datepart, date) retur...
2017-02-14, 2971🔥, 0💬

Creating Stored Procedures with Parameters in SQL Server
How To Create Stored Procedures with Parameters in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Very often, you need to create a stored procedure with one or more parameters. You only supply values to those parameters at the time of executing the stored procedure. Stored procedures with parameters can be created with t...
2017-01-05, 2966🔥, 0💬

Getting "Connection failed" Error on ODBC DSN Creation
Why Am I Getting Errors When Creating a New ODBC DSN? Continue from the previous tutorial. After clicking Next on the SQL login information screen, ODBC manager will try to connect to the SQL Server with the login information you provided. After a period of waiting time, you may get error message bo...
2024-08-06, 2965🔥, 0💬

"SELECT" Statements - Reading the Data In a Table in SQL Server
How to read data in a table with "SELECT" statements in SQL Server? This is the fourth 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 tabl...
2016-12-02, 2965🔥, 0💬

What Are Views in SQL Server
What Are Views in SQL Server? A view is a database object that represents the data in one or more tables in the same structure as a separate table. Here are some basic rules about views: Tables store real data. Views do not store real data. Views must have underlying tables to provide data. Each vie...
2016-11-08, 2965🔥, 0💬

Duplicate Key Error on Primary Key Columns in SQL Server
What Happens If You Insert a Duplicate Key for the Primary Key Column in SQL Server? If your table has a primary key column, and you are trying to insert a new row with duplicate key value on the primary key column, you will get an error. The reason is simple - Primary key column does not allow dupl...
2016-11-02, 2963🔥, 0💬

"CREATE TRIGGER" - Creating a DML Trigger in SQL Server
How To Create a DML Trigger using CREATE TRIGGER Statements in SQL Server? A DML trigger is a trigger declared to handle a DML event, which occurs when an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement is executed. If you want to create a DML trigger, you should use the "CREATE TRIGGER" statement in the followi...
2016-10-25, 2961🔥, 0💬

Converting Numeric Data Types by Assignment Operations in SQL Server
How To Convert Numeric Expression Data Types by Assignment Operations in SQL Server Transact-SQL? An assignment operation is used to assign an expression to a variable, a column, or a parameter. If the data type of the expression does not match the data type of the receiving variable, column, or par...
2017-03-27, 2960🔥, 0💬

Overflow Errors on Converting Big Values to Integers in SQL Server
What Happens When Converting Big Values to Integers in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If you are converting a numeric expression to an integer data type and the value is too big for integer storage size, you will get an arithmetic overflow error as shown in the following examples: -- Overflow error on imp...
2017-03-22, 2956🔥, 0💬

SQL Server Connection Concepts
Where to find answers to frequently asked questions on SQL Server Connection Concepts? Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team on SQL Server Connectivity Concepts. SQL Server Connection Protocols SQL Server TCP/IP Connection Info   ⇒ SQL Serv...
2024-08-14, 2955🔥, 0💬

Performing Comparison on Character Strings in SQL Server
How To Perform Comparison on Character Strings in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Comparison operations on character strings are performed based on the associated collation. Each collation defines rules on how characters are ordered, how character cases and accents are treated, etc. The tutorial exercise b...
2017-01-21, 2955🔥, 0💬

What Is an Expression in SQL Server
What Is an Expression in SQL Server Transact-SQL? An expression is a combination of identifiers, values, and operators that SQL Server 2005 can evaluate to obtain a numeric value. A simple expression could be a constant, a function, a column name, a variable, or a subquery without any operators. Com...
2017-04-01, 2954🔥, 0💬

Commonly Used ODBC Functions in PHP
What Are Commonly Used ODBC Functions in PHP? If you look at the PHP 5 manual, you will see a group of functions listed under the ODBC Functions (Unified) section. The commonly used ODBC functions are: odbc_connect � Establish an OBDC connection. odbc_data_source � Returns information about a curren...
2024-03-17, 2952🔥, 0💬

Using Subqueries with the EXISTS Operators in SQL Server
How To Use Subqueries with the EXISTS Operators in SQL Server? A subquery can be used with the EXISTS operator as "EXISTS (subquery)", which returns true if the subquery returns one or more rows. The following statement is a good example of "EXISTS (subquery)". It returns rows from fyi_links table t...
2016-10-29, 2949🔥, 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, 2945🔥, 0💬

Connecting MS Access to SQL Servers through ODBC
How To Connect MS Access to SQL Servers through ODBC? Once you got a DSN defined in the ODBC manager that connects to your SQL Server, you can connect a normal MS Access document to the Oracle server, and link an Access table to a SQL Server table. The tutorial below gives you a good example: Start ...
2024-03-17, 2942🔥, 0💬

Syntaxes of Creating Table-Valued Functions in SQL Server
How Many Ways to Create Table-Valued Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL? SQL Server supports two syntaxes of creating table-valued functions: 1. Inline Table-valued Functions - A table-valued function created with a single SELECT statement: CREATE FUNCTION function_name( @parameter_1 data_type, @p...
2016-12-18, 2941🔥, 0💬

Rebuilding All Indexes on One Table in SQL Server
How To Rebuild All Indexes on a Single Table in SQL Server? If you have several indexes on a single table and want to rebuild all of them, you may use the "ALTER INDEX ALL ON table_name REBUILD" statement as shown in the tutorial exercise below: USE FyiCenterData; GO UPDATE fyi_links_indexed SET url...
2016-11-08, 2941🔥, 0💬

Creating an Index on a View in SQL Server
How To Create an Index on a View in SQL Server? If you need to search and sort data in a view with a large number of row, you may want to create an index on the view to speed up your search process. The tutorial exercise below shows you how to create a unique clustered index on a view. DROP VIEW fyi...
2016-11-03, 2938🔥, 0💬

Categories of Functions Based on Return Modes in SQL Server
How Many Categories of Functions based Their Return Modes in SQL Server Transact-SQL? SQL Server supports 2 categories of user defined functions based on their return modes: 1. Scalar-valued Functions - A function that returns a single value. Scalar-valued functions can be used in scalar expressions...
2016-12-18, 2935🔥, 0💬

"FETCH" - Transferring Data from Cursors to Variables in SQL Server
How To Transfer Data from a Cursor to Variables with a "FETCH" Statement in SQL Server Transact-SQL? By default, a FETCH statement will display the fetched row on the client program window. If you want to transfer the output data to variables, you can specify an INTO clause with a list of variables ...
2016-10-17, 2935🔥, 0💬

Using Multiple Columns in the GROUP BY Clause in SQL Server
Can Multiple Columns Be Used in GROUP BY in SQL Server? If you want to break your output into smaller groups, you can specify multiple column names or expressions in the GROUP BY clause. Output in each group must satisfy a specific combination of the expressions listed in the GROUP BY clause. The mo...
2016-10-25, 2933🔥, 0💬

Testing Local Temporary Stored Procedures in SQL Server
Can Another User Execute Your Local Temporary Stored Procedures in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Can another user execute your local temporary stored procedures? The answer is no. To test this out, continue with the exercise from the previous tutorial. Keep that user session running and open a new client...
2016-12-28, 2931🔥, 0💬

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