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Question: How to get the next Identity Value in SQL Server 2008? Answer: It is very simple to the get the identity value in SQL Server. Let’s see with the example below Lets‘s create some dummy data as mentioned below … In SQ Server, there are two functions IDENT_CURRENT and
» Read moreInline variable assignment is available in SQL Server 2008 or higher version. Beside this is very simple but very useful feature. Many of the programming languages have this feature. But now SQL Server 2008 or higher version has this feature. Example: —- SQL Server 2005 or earlier versions DECLARE @var1
» Read moreMicrosoft has released one second draft of this book. PART I DATABASE ADMINISTRATION (Ross’s part) Denali Editions and Enhancements High Availability and Disaster Recovery Enhancements Scalability and Performance Security Enhancements Beyond Relational PART II BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT (Stacia’s part) Integration Services Data Quality Services Master Data Services Analysis Services and
» Read moreIn SQL Server 2012, seven new datetime functions have been introduced. DATEFROMPARTS is one of them. Syntax: DATEFROMPARTS (year, month, day) DATEFROMPARTS returns a date value with the date portion set to the specified year, month and day, and the time portion set to the default. If the arguments are
» Read moreThere are seven new datetime functions are introduced in SQL Server 2012 as motioned below DATEFROMPARTS ( year, month, day) DATETIMEFROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, milliseconds ) DATETIME2FROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions, precision ) DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions,
» Read moreGO is not a Transact-SQL statement, even it used in the Transact-SQL. It is a SQL Utility command. SQL Server utilities interpret GO as a signal that they should send the current batch of Transact-SQL statements to an instance of SQL Server. The current batch of statements is composed of
» Read moreI had requirement to make the User Defined Group in Reports (i.e. Crystal Reports) Example: CREATE TABLE test_custom_group ( id INT, dept VARCHAR(20), detail VARCHAR(30), salary NUMERIC(5,2) ) Created a Function CREATE FUNCTION test_fn ( ) RETURNS @temp_table TABLE ( sno int, dept varchar(20), grp varchar(10) ) AS BEGIN INSERT
» Read moreI had requirement to get the values with Use Defined Sort order. Here is simple way to get User Defined Sort order Example: Created a table as : CREATE TABLE sort_order ( id INT, dept VARCHAR(20), detail VARCHAR(30) ) Inserted few rows in table as Requirement: Now we want to
» Read moreA self-join is joining a table to itself. This is done by using table name aliases to give each instance of the table a separate name. Self Join is very useful when you want to compare values in a column to other values in the same column. Self join and
» Read moreThere are two new Logical functions are introduced in Denali. Let‘s have a look IFF CHOOSE IFF It Returns one of two values, depending on whether the Boolean expression evaluates to true or false. IIF is a shorthand way for writing a CASE statement. It evaluates the Boolean expression passed
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