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Defragmenting Table Indexes in SQL Server
How To Defragment Table Indexes in SQL Server? When a table index is fragmented to a certain percentage, you need to defragment the index to maintain its performance level. There are 3 ways to defragment: 1. "ALTER INDEX index_name ON table_name REORGANIZE" - Defragmenting the specified index perfor...
2016-11-08, 2230🔥, 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, 2229🔥, 0💬

EXISTS - Testing Subquery Results in SQL Server
How To Test Subquery Results with the EXISTS Operator in SQL Server Transact-SQL? EXISTS is a special operator used to test subquery results. EXISTS can be used in two ways: EXISTS (SELECT ...) -- Returns TRUE if the specified subquery has one or more rows returned. NOT EXISTS (SELECT ...) -- Return...
2017-01-21, 2228🔥, 0💬

"DROP TABLE" - Deleting Existing Tables in SQL Server
How To Drop an Existing Table with "DROP TABLE" Statements in SQL Server? If you want to delete an existing table and its data rows, you can use the "DROP TABLE" statement as shown in the tutorial script below: SELECT * FROM tipBackup GO id subject description create_date 1 Learn SQL Visit dev.fyice...
2016-11-15, 2227🔥, 0💬

UNION - Merging Outputs from Two Queries Together in SQL Server
How To Use UNION to Merge Outputs from Two Queries Together in SQL Server? If you have two queries that returns the same row fields, you can merge their outputs together with the UNION operator. The following tutorial exercise shows you how to use the UNION operator: SELECT * FROM fyi_links WHERE ta...
2016-10-26, 2224🔥, 0💬

ntwdblib.dll - SQL Server Client Library DLL
What Is Wrong with SQL Server Client Library DLL, ntwdblib.dll? The second requirement to access SQL Server with PHP scripts is the SQL Server Client Library DLL, ntwdblib.dll. The good news is that the Windows binary version of PHP 5.2.3 has ntwdblib.dll included in the PHP home directory. But the ...
2024-04-14, 2222🔥, 0💬

PHP ODBC - Deleting Existing Rows in a Table
PHP ODBC - How To Delete Existing Rows in a Table? If you want to remove a row from a table, you can use the DELETE statement with a WHERE clause to identify the row. The following sample script deletes one row: &lt;?php $con = odbc_connect('FYI_SQL_SERVER', 'sa','FYIcenter');$sql = "DELETE FROM...
2024-05-05, 2219🔥, 0💬

PHP ODBC - Creating a New Table
PHP ODBC - How To Create a New Table? If you want to create a table in the database connected through a ODBC DSN, you can run the CREATE TABLE SQL statement using the odbc_exec() function, as shown in the following sample script: &lt;?php $con = odbc_connect('FYI_SQL_SERVER', 'sa','FYIcenter');#...
2024-06-03, 2217🔥, 0💬

Basic Features of a Trigger in SQL Server
What Are the Basic Features of a Trigger in SQL Server? Since a SQL Server trigger is a really an event handler, it has the following basic features similar to event handlers in other programming languages: Event Type - It must be declared to handle a specific event, like a DELETE event. Object Scop...
2016-10-25, 2217🔥, 0💬

Requirements for Connecting PHP to MS SQL Server
What Do You Need to Connect PHP to SQL Server? If you want to access MS SQL Server in your PHP script, you need to make sure that: 1. MSSQL API module (extension) is installed and turned on in your PHP engine. If you installed the Windows binary version of PHP 5.2.3, MSSQL API module is included but...
2024-04-29, 2215🔥, 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, 2215🔥, 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, 2213🔥, 0💬

LIKE - Matching a Pattern in a Character String in SQL Server
What To Perform Pattern Match with the LIKE Operator in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Pattern match is a very important operation for search records base on character string columns. SQL Server 2005 offers the LIKE operator to perform pattern match operations in two formats: target_string LIKE pattern --...
2017-01-21, 2211🔥, 0💬

Providing Column Names in INSERT Statements in SQL Server
How to provide column names in INSERT Statements in SQL Server? If you don't want to specify values for columns that have default values, or you want to specify values to columns in an order different than how they are defined, you can provide a column list in the INSERT statement. If a column is om...
2016-11-02, 2209🔥, 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, 2208🔥, 0💬

NULL Values Involved in Datetime Operations in SQL Server
What Happens If NULL Values Are Involved in Datetime Operations in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If NULL values are involved in datetime operations, the result will be datetime NULL values. The following tutorial script shows you some good examples: USE FyiCenterData; GO SELECT GETDATE()+NULL; GO -------...
2017-02-05, 2205🔥, 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, 2204🔥, 0💬

Providing Default Values to Procedure Parameters in SQL Server
How To Provide Default Values to Stored Procedure Parameters in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If you add a parameter when creating a stored procedure, you can provide a default value so that the execution statement is not required to pass input value to this parameter. To provide a default value to a par...
2016-12-28, 2204🔥, 0💬

Using Group Functions in the ORDER BY Clause in SQL Server
Can Group Functions Be Used in the ORDER BY Clause in SQL Server? If the query output is aggregated as groups, you can sort the groups by using group functions in the ORDER BY clause. The following statement returns the maximum "counts" in each group, determined by a unique combination of tag and ye...
2016-10-25, 2202🔥, 0💬

Requirements on SQL Server Network Connections
What Are the Requirements on SQL Server Network Connections? By default, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is installed only one connection protocol enabled: Shared Memory - SQL Server connection protocol for applications that are running on the same machine where the SQL Server is running. For exampl...
2024-08-06, 2201🔥, 0💬

IN - Testing Value in a Value List in SQL Server
What To Test Value Lists with the IN Operator in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Sometimes you want to test a given value against a list of values. You can do this in a loop with the regular "equal" operator. But you can also use the special comparison operator IN to get it done with the following syntaxes...
2017-01-21, 2201🔥, 0💬

What Are User Defined Functions in SQL Server
What Are User Defined Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL? A user defined function is a collection of Transact-SQL statements that stored in the SQL Server. A user defined function will return data when executed. A user defined function works in the same way as a system function. It can be used as ...
2016-12-28, 2201🔥, 0💬

SQL Server FAQs - PHP ODBC Functions - Managing Tables and Data Rows
A collection of 14 FAQs on using PHP ODBC functions to connect to manage tables and data rows. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on creating tables; inserting multiple data rows; updating and deleting data rows; searching data from multiple tables; looping through result sets; w...
2024-06-03, 2200🔥, 0💬

Creating Local Temporary Stored Procedures in SQL Server
How To Create a Local Temporary Stored Procedure in SQL Server Transact-SQL? A local temporary stored procedure is a special stored procedure that: Is created like a normal (permanent) stored procedure with the name prefixed with a number sign (#). Are only valid in the same client session where it ...
2016-12-28, 2200🔥, 0💬

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