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I have seen many different reasons and point of view on the use of cursors. Some people never used, some used at last resort and some used regularly. In each of these, they must have different reasons for their stand on cursor usage. There must have a reason or place
» Read moreHere is an example – Import CSV file to SQL table using Bulk-Insert CSV file means Comma Separated Values file. USE testdb GO CREATE TABLE table1 ( id INT, name VARCHAR(255), address VARCHAR(255) ) GO Create CSV file in Shared folder on any remote location with name csv.txt Suppose location
» Read moreHere is new feature of SQL Server 2008 – “Comma Separated INSERT Option” In this feature using a single INSERT statement you can pass multiple value for the table using comma separated option. USE testdb GO CREATE TABLE table1 ( id INT IDENTITY(1,1), name VARCHAR(255), address VARCHAR(255) ) SELECT
» Read moreHere is an example: Inserting same value multiple time in SQL table USE testdb GO CREATE TABLE table1 ( id INT IDENTITY(1,1), name VARCHAR(255), address VARCHAR(255) ) SELECT * FROM testdb..table1 INSERT INTO testdb..table1 VALUES (‘Varinder’,’ABC Street’) go 5 Result :
» Read moreThe primary purpose of replication is to distribute data from a master database to one or more secondary databases. Because Replication maintains a duplicate copy of data in synchronization with the master copy, the technology can be used to provide availability for application. Type of Replication Snapshot Transactional Merge Snapshot
» Read moreMicrosoft Webcast topic: “Introduction to SQL Azure (Level 100)” Sharing with brief introduction and difference between SQL Servers and SQL Azure SQL Azure is a highly available and scalable cloud database service built on SQL Server technologies. With SQL Azure, developers do not have to install, setup, and patch or
» Read moreDatabase backup are insurance policy for a database, we need to ensure that backups created are valid and useful. To validate the backup, we can use following command Restore verifyonly from <backup device> When a backups is validated, SQL Server performs the following steps Calculated a checksum for the backup
» Read moreSQL Server 2008 has a new feature called Policy Based Management, also know as Declarative Management Framework (DMF), to tackle the problem of standardizing your SQL server instance. Although Policy Based Management can be used just to alert an administrator when an object is out of compliance, depending upon the
» Read moreKey Points of Distributing and Partitioning Partition allow you to divide a table or index into multiple filegroups. Table and index are partition horizontally, based on rows by specifying a partitioning column. To create a portioned table or index you need to perform the following actions: Create a partition function
» Read moreBefore looking about Backup type for each Model, sharing with brief information about Recovery and Recovery Model Recovery Recovery options determine the behavior of transaction log and how damaged pages are handled. Recovery Model Every database within a SQL server a SQL server instance has a property setting called recovery
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