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Exact Numeric Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What are exact numeric literals supported in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Exact numeric literals in Transact-SQL are numbers written in standard signed decimal formats. Exact numeric literals are used to provide values to exact numeric variables or table columns like INTEGER, DECIMAL(8,2), MONEY, etc. E...
2017-05-05, 4605🔥, 0💬

DROP_EXISTING - Recreating an Existing Index in SQL Server
How To Recreate an Existing Index in SQL Server? If you want to change the definition of an existing index, you can use the "DROP INDEX" statement to drop the index first. Then use the "CREATE INDEX" statement to create it again with the new definition. But you can also combine those two statements ...
2016-11-08, 4584🔥, 0💬

ISNULL() - Replacing NULL Values in Expressions in SQL Server
How To Replace NULL Values in Expressions using ISNULL() in SQL Server Transact-SQL? As you learned from previous tutorials, NULL values presented in expressions will cause the final results to be NULL. Sometimes, you want NULL values to be replaced with some default values, like 0, '', or 'NULL', s...
2017-02-03, 4555🔥, 0💬

mscorsvw.exe - Process - Microsoft .NET Framework NGEN in SQL Server
What is mscorsvw.exe - Process - Microsoft .NET Framework NGEN in SQL Server? Process mscorsvw.exe is installed as a system service as part of the .NET Framework 2.0. You can disable it, if you are not using any applications that require .NET Framework 2.0. mscorsvw.exe process and program file info...
2016-12-08, 4456🔥, 0💬

What Are Indexes in SQL Server
What Are Indexes in SQL Server? An index is a secondary database object associated with a table to improve the retrieval performance of rows from that table. An index can be defined for a single column or multiple columns of a given table. If an index is defined on a single column of a table, the in...
2016-11-15, 4449🔥, 0💬

Get System Date and Time in SQL Server Transact-SQL
How to get system date and time in SQL Server Transact-SQL? I want a list of functions for getting current system date and time. Here is a comparison of all functions that you can use to get the current date and time from the data base server system: Function Return type Precision ------------------...
2017-02-25, 4408🔥, 0💬

Overflow and Rounding on NUMERIC Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL
How Extra Digits Are Handled with NUMERIC Data Type Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Exact numeric data types defined with NUMERIC(p,s) has two limits defined by two parameters: p (precision) and s (scale): Maximum number of digits of the integer part (digits before the decimal point) is defined...
2017-04-19, 4394🔥, 0💬

NULL Values Involved in Arithmetic Operations in SQL Server
What Happens If NULL Values Are Involved in Arithmetic Operations in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If NULL values are involved in arithmetic operations, the result will be numeric NULL values. The following tutorial script shows you some good examples: SELECT 7+NULL; GO ----------- NULL SELECT 10.02*NULL...
2017-02-05, 4392🔥, 0💬

Entering Date and Time Values in SQL Server
How To Enter Date and Time values in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Transact-SQL does not support date and time literals. If you want to enter date and time values, you have to use character string literals and rely implicit casting rules to convert them into date and time values. When casting character s...
2017-04-15, 4387🔥, 0💬

OFFLINE - Taking a database offline in SQL Server
How to set a database state to OFFLINE in SQL Server? If you want to move database physical files, you should take the database offline by using the "ALTER DATABASE" statement with the following syntax: ALTER DATABASE database_name SET OFFLINE The following tutorial example will bring "FyiCenterComD...
2016-11-20, 4384🔥, 0💬

How To Count Duplicated Values in a Column? in SQL Server
How To Count Duplicated Values in a Column in SQL Server? If you have a column with duplicated values, and you want to know what are those duplicated values are and how many duplicates are there for each of those values, you can use the "GROUP BY ... HAVING" clause as shown in the following example....
2016-10-25, 4378🔥, 0💬

What Is Microsoft SQL Server in SQL Server
What is Microsoft SQL Server in SQL Server? Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. It runs on Windows systems and uses Transact-SQL as the query language. Microsoft SQL Server release history: 1993 - SQL Server 4.21 for Windows NT 1995 - SQL S...
2016-12-08, 4331🔥, 0💬

Collation - Character Code Page in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What Is a Collation in SQL Server Transact-SQL? A collation in Transact-SQL is a set of specifications defining a character set and its sorting rules. SQL Server support a large number of built-in collations. For example: Albanian_CI_AI_KS_WS - Albanian, case-insensitive (CI), accent-insensitive (AI...
2017-05-13, 4301🔥, 0💬

"sys.columns" - Getting a List of Columns in a View in SQL Server
How To Get a List of Columns in a View using "sys.columns" in SQL Server? If you have an existing view, but you don't remember what are the columns defined in the view, you can use the "sys.columns" system view to get a list of all columns of all views in the current database. In order to a list of ...
2016-11-05, 4280🔥, 0💬

CREATE TABLE - Creating New Tables in SQL Server
How to create new tables with "CREATE TABLE" statements in SQL Server? If you want to create a new table, you can use the "CREATE TABLE" statement. The following tutorial script shows you how to create a table called "tip": CREATE TABLE tip (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, subject VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL, desc...
2016-11-17, 4266🔥, 0💬

"sp_columns" - Getting a List of Columns in a View in SQL Server
How To Get a List of Columns in a View using the "sp_columns" Stored Procedure in SQL Server? If you have an existing table, but you don't remember what are the columns defined in the view, you can use the "sp_columns" stored procedure to get a list of all columns of the specified view. The followin...
2016-11-05, 4266🔥, 0💬

Measuring Performance of INSERT Statements in SQL Server
How To Measure Performance of INSERT Statements in SQL Server? When indexes are defined for a table, each time a new row is inserted to the table, all the indexes must be updated. This extra update work could slow down the insert statement. To find out how much slower the INSERT statements will be o...
2016-11-13, 4260🔥, 0💬

"sp_rename ... 'OBJECT'" - Renaming Existing Tables in SQL Server
How to rename an existing table with the "sp_rename" stored procedure in SQL Server? If you have an existing table and you want to change the table name, you can use the "sp_rename ... 'OBJECT'" stored procedure. "sp_rename" allows you to change names of COLUMN, DATABASE, INDEX, USERDATATYPE, and OB...
2016-11-15, 4246🔥, 0💬

"CREATE PROCEDURE" - Creating Simple Stored Procedures in SQL Server
How To Create a Simple Stored Procedure in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If you want to create a simple stored procedure with no input and output parameters, you can use the "CREATE PROCEDURE" command with a statement batch in a simple format as shown in below: CREATE PROCEDURE procedure_name AS statemen...
2017-01-05, 4234🔥, 0💬

sys.schemas - Listing All Schemas in a Database in SQL Server
How To List All Schemas in a Database in SQL Server? If you want see all existing schemas in the current database, you can use view sys.schemas as shown in the example below: USE FyiCenterData; GO SELECT * FROM sys.schemas; GO name schema_id principal_id -------------------- ----------- ------------...
2016-10-22, 4198🔥, 0💬

Constant or Data Literal in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What Is a Constant or Literal in SQL Server Transact-SQL? A constant, or data literal, is a symbolic expression that represents a specific value of a specific data type in SQL Server Transact-SQL. Constants or literals are used commonly as the default values for table columns, variables, and paramet...
2017-05-20, 4192🔥, 0💬

Creating Multi-Statement Table-Value Functions in SQL Server
How To Create an Multi-Statement Table-Valued Function in SQL Server Transact-SQL? To create a multi-statement table-valued function, you need to define a temporary table as the returning table in the function. INSERT statements should be used to insert data into the returning table. The tutorial ex...
2016-10-17, 4188🔥, 0💬

Using User Defined Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL
Where to find answers to frequently asked questions on Using User Defined Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team on Using User Defined Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL. Clear answers are provided wit...
2016-12-28, 4185🔥, 0💬

Suser_Sname() - Sever Level Security Principal of Your Session in SQL Server
What Is the Security Principal at the Server Level That Represents Your Session in SQL Server? Security principal identifies who you are when you interact with the SQL Server. What can do you at the server level solely depends on the security principal that represents you. So it is very important to...
2016-10-20, 4167🔥, 0💬

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