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Where to find tutorials to answer some frequently asked questions on Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL? I want to know how to write database scripts to run on SQL Server.

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Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team about Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL:

General Questions on Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL

What Is SQL Language

What Is SQL Server Transact-SQL (T-SQL)?

Versions of SQL Server Transact-SQL

Is SQL Server Transact-SQL Case Sensitive?

What Is a Statement in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Start and End of Statement in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Comments in SQL Server Transact-SQL Statements

Statement Batch in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Compilation Error in a Statement Batch in SQL Server

SQL Server Transact-SQL Language References

Data Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Constant or Data Literal in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Types of Data Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Single-byte String Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Collation - Character Code Page in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Default Collation in SQL Server Transact-SQL

COLLATE Clause in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Casting Strings to Wrong Code Pages in SQL Server Transact-SQL

CHAR(n) - Truncating/Padding Strings in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Unicode String Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Unicode Character String Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Exact Numeric Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Approximate Numeric Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Binary Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Entering Binary String Literals in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Variables and Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL

What Is Variable in SQL Server Transact-SQL

List of Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Exact Numeric Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Overflow Errors with INT Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Overflow and Rounding on NUMERIC Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Approximate Numeric Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Precision and Rounding of FLOAT Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Underflow and Overflow of FLOAT Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Differences of DECIMAL and FLOAT in SQL Server

Date and Time Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Entering Date and Time Values in SQL Server

Casting Numeric Values to DATETIME in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Entering 0.001 Second in DATETIME in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Date-Only DATETIME Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Time-Only DATETIME Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Out-of-Range DATETIME Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Single-Byte Character Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Unicode Character Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Differences of CHAR and NCHAR in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Differences of CHAR and VARCHAR in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Binary String Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL

DECLARE Statements in SQL Server Transact-SQL

SET Statements in SQL Server Transact-SQL

PRINT Statements in SQL Server Transact-SQL

CONVERT/CAST Function in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Numeric Expressions and Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL

What Is an Expression in SQL Server

Rules on Arithmetic Operations in SQL Server

Arithmetic Operations with Different Data Types in SQL Server

Converting Numeric Expressions from One Data Type to Another in SQL Server

Converting Numeric Data Types by Assignment Operations in SQL Server

CAST() - Converting Numeric Expression Data Types in SQL Server

CONVERT() - Converting Numeric Expression Data Types in SQL Server

CONVERT() - Converting Character Strings to Numeric Values in SQL Server

Overflow Errors on Converting Big Values to Integers in SQL Server

Overflow Errors on Converting Big Values to NUMERIC in SQL Server

Mathematical Functions Supported by SQL Server 2005 in SQL Server

FLOOR, CEILING, ROUND - Converting Values to Integers in SQL Server

ROUND() - Rounding Values to Specific Precisions in SQL Server

RAND() - Generating Random Numbers in SQL Server

Character Strings and Binary Strings in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Concatenating Two Character Strings in SQL Server

String Type Conversion During Concatenation in SQL Server

Converting Unicode Strings to Non-Unicode Strings in SQL Server

Character String Functions Supported by SQL Server 2005 in SQL Server

Inserting New Line Characters into Strings in SQL Server

CHARINDEX() and SUBSTRING() - Locating and Taking Substrings in SQL Server

Concatenating Two Binary Strings in SQL Server

Using Binary Strings in Arithmetical Operations in SQL Server

Converting Binary Strings into Integers in SQL Server

Converting Binary Strings into NUMERIC or FLOAT in SQL Server

Converting Binary Strings into Character Strings in SQL Server

Converting Binary Strings into Unicode Character Strings in SQL Server

bin2hex - Converting Binary Strings into Hexadecimal Character Strings in SQL Server

AND, OR, XOR, and NOT - Bitwise Operations in SQL Server

Date/Time Operations and Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Date/Time Data Type Comparison in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Get System Date and Time in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Verify Time Precision in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Adding and Removing Days on Date and Time Values in SQL Server

Converting Date and Time Values into Integers in SQL Server

Converting Integers into Date and Time Values in SQL Server

Converting DATETIME and NUMERIC Values in SQL Server

Subtracting a DATETIME Value from Another DATETIME Value in SQL Server

Date and Time Functions Supported by SQL Server 2005 in SQL Server

Incrementing or Decrementing Parts of DATETIME Values in SQL Server

DATEADD() Function Usage Examples in SQL Server

DATEDIFF() - Calculating DATETIME Value Differences in SQL Server

Calculating Age in Days, Hours and Minutes in SQL Server

Getting Month and Weekday Names from DATATIME Values in SQL Server

Getting Parts of DATETIME Values as Integers in SQL Server

Getting Year, Month and Day Out of DATETIME Values in SQL Server

Difference Between GETDATE() and GETUTCDATE() in SQL Server

Formatting Time Zone in +/-hh:mm Format in SQL Server

CONVERT() - Formatting DATETIME Values to Strings in SQL Server

Truncating DATETIME Values to Dates without Time in SQL Server

Setting New Values to Parts of a DATETIME Value in SQL Server

Working with NULL Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL

What Are NULL Values in SQL Server

Assigning NULL Values to Variables or Columns in SQL Server

NULL Values Involved in Arithmetic Operations in SQL Server

NULL Values Involved in String Operations in SQL Server

NULL Values Involved in Datetime Operations in SQL Server

NULL Values Involved in Bitwise Operations in SQL Server

NULL Values Involved in Comparison Operations in SQL Server

NULL Values Involved in Boolean Operations in SQL Server

"IS NULL" - Testing NULL Values in SQL Server

ISNULL() - Replacing NULL Values in Expressions in SQL Server

NULLIF() - Replacing Given Values with NULL in SQL Server

Boolean Values and Logical Operations in SQL Server Transact-SQL

What Is a Boolean Value in SQL Server

CASE - Conditional Expressions in SQL Server

What Are Comparison Operations in SQL Server

Performing Comparison on Exact Numbers in SQL Server

Performing Comparison on Floating Point Numbers in SQL Server

Performing Comparison on Date and Time Values in SQL Server

Performing Comparison on Character Strings in SQL Server

BETWEEN - Testing Value in a Range in SQL Server

IN - Testing Value in a Value List in SQL Server

LIKE - Matching a Pattern in a Character String in SQL Server

Using Wildcard Characters in LIKE Operations in SQL Server

EXISTS - Testing Subquery Results in SQL Server

IN - Testing Values Returned by a Subquery in SQL Server

What Are Logical/Boolean Operations in SQL Server

Conditional Statements and Loops in SQL Server in SQL Server Transact-SQL

BEGIN ... END Statement Blocks in SQL Server Transact-SQL

IF ... ELSE Statement in SQL Server Transact-SQL

"IF ... ELSE IF ..." Statement Structures in SQL Server

WHILE ... Loops in SQL Server Transact-SQL

BREAK of Loop Statement in SQL Server Transact-SQL

CONTINUE to Next Loop Iteration in SQL Server Transact-SQL

Using Stored Procedures in SQL Server Transact-SQL

What Are Stored Procedures in SQL Server

"CREATE PROCEDURE" - Creating Simple Stored Procedures in SQL Server

EXECUTE - Executing Stored Procedures in SQL Server

sys.procedures - Listing All Stored Procedures in SQL Server

"DROP PROCEDURE" - Dropping an Existing Procedure in SQL Server

Creating Stored Procedures with Statement Blocks in SQL Server

Ending Stored Procedures Properly in SQL Server

Generating CREATE PROCEDURE Scripts on Existing Stored Procedures in SQL Server

sys.sql_modules - Getting Stored Procedure Definitions Back in SQL Server

"ALTER PROCEDURE" - Modifying Existing Stored Procedures in SQL Server

Creating Stored Procedures with Parameters in SQL Server

Passing Values to Stored Procedure Parameters in SQL Server

Passing Name-Value Pairs as Parameters in SQL Server

Passing Expressions to Stored Procedure Parameters in SQL Server

Providing Default Values to Procedure Parameters in SQL Server

OUTPUT - Defining Output Parameters in Stored Procedures in SQL Server

OUTPUT - Receiving Output Values from Stored Procedures in SQL Server

Creating Local Temporary Stored Procedures in SQL Server

Testing Local Temporary Stored Procedures in SQL Server

Using User Defined Functions in SQL Server Transact-SQL

What Are User Defined Functions in SQL Server

Differences between Functions and Stored Procedures in SQL Server

"CREATE FUNCTION" - Creating User Defined Functions in SQL Server

Using User Defined Functions in Expressions in SQL Server

sys.objects - Listing All User Defined Functions in SQL Server

"DROP FUNCTION" - Dropping an Existing User Defined Function in SQL Server

Generating CREATE FUNCTION Scripts on Existing Functions in SQL Server

sys.sql_modules - Getting User Defined Function Definitions Back in SQL Server

"ALTER FUNCTION" - Modifying Existing Functions in SQL Server

Creating User Defined Functions with Parameters in SQL Server

Passing Values to User Defined Function Parameters in SQL Server

Passing Expressions to Function Parameters in SQL Server

DEFAULT - Providing Default Values to Function Parameters in SQL Server

Categories of Functions Based on Return Modes in SQL Server

Syntaxes of Creating Table-Valued Functions in SQL Server

"RETURNS TABLE" - Creating Inline Table-Value Functions in SQL Server

Creating Multi-Statement Table-Value Functions in SQL Server

Using Cursors in SQL Server Transact-SQL

What Are Cursors in SQL Server

"DECLARE ... CURSOR" - Declaring Cursor Objects in SQL Server

"OPEN" - Executing the Query of a Cursor in SQL Server

"FETCH" - Fetching the Next Row from a Cursor in SQL Server

"FETCH" - Transferring Data from Cursors to Variables in SQL Server

"@@FETCH_STATUS" - Looping through Result Set in SQL Server

Declaring and Using Cursor Variables in SQL Server

SCROLL - Creating Cursors for Backward Scrolling in SQL Server

DYNAMIC - Creating Dynamic Cursors in SQL Server

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