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What Is a Database in SQL Server
What is a database in SQL Server? A database is a logical container that contains a set of related database objects: Tables - Storages of structured data. Views - Queries to present data from tables. Indexes - Sorting indexes to speed up searches. Stored Procedures - Predefined SQL program units. Us...
2016-11-24, 3061🔥, 0💬

Enabling TCP/IP Protocol on a SQL Server
How To Enable TCP/IP Protocol on a SQL Server? By default, the TCP/IP protocol is turned off when a SQL Server is installed to reduce security risk. But if you want applications to connect and access the SQL Server, you need to enable the TCP/IP protocol on the server by following this tutorial: 1. ...
2024-07-25, 3056🔥, 0💬

Adding Address Records into AdventureWorksLT in SQL Server
How to add an address record into AdventureWorksLT in SQL Server? To find out if we can add data into AdventureWorksLT or not, you can try to add an address record into the "SalesLT.Address" in AdventureWorksLT: USE AdventureWorksLT GO INSERT SalesLT.Address (AddressLine1, City, StateProvince, Count...
2016-12-02, 3052🔥, 0💬

Defining and Using Table Alias Names in SQL Server
How To Define and Use Table Alias Names in SQL Server? When column names need to be prefixed with table names, you can define table alias name and use them to prefix column names. To define an alias for a table name, just enter the alias name right after the original table name in the FROM clause as...
2016-10-30, 3052🔥, 0💬

Creating Triggers for INSERT Statements Only in SQL Server
How To Create a Trigger for INSERT Only in SQL Server? The trigger, dml_message, provided in previous tutorials was defined to handle all 3 types of DML statements, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. If you do not want the trigger to handle all 3 types of DML statements, you can list only 1 or 2 of the sta...
2016-10-24, 3051🔥, 0💬

Importance of Column Order in the SET Clause in Update Statements in SQL Server
Is the Order of Columns in the SET Clause Important in SQL Server? The answer is NO. The order of columns in the SET clause of the UPDATE statement is NOT important. You probably already noticed from the previous tutorial. There is a BIG DIFFERENCE among SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle on update multip...
2016-11-02, 3049🔥, 0💬

Primary Key - Default Indexes of Tables in SQL Server
Is the PRIMARY KEY Column of a Table an Index in SQL Server? If you define a primary key on a table, an index for the primary key column will be created by default. The tutorial exercise below shows you the index created as part of the primary key column of "fyi_links": USE FyiCenterData; GO -- Drop...
2016-11-13, 3046🔥, 0💬

"CREATE TRIGGER" - Creating a DDL Trigger in SQL Server
How To Create a DDL Trigger using "CREATE TRIGGER" Statements in SQL Server? A DDL trigger is defined to handle a DDL statement event, like create, alter and drop tables, views, indexes, etc. DDL triggers can be used to generate warning messages on database object changes. The format of creating a D...
2016-10-22, 3036🔥, 0💬

CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX - Adding Clustered Indexes in SQL Server
How To Create a Clustered Index in SQL Server? If there is no primary key in a table, you can add one clustered index to that table with CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX statement. The tutorial exercise below shows you how to create a clustered index: USE FyiCenterData; GO -- Drop the old table, if needed DRO...
2016-11-13, 3032🔥, 0💬

"DROP DATABASE" - Deleting Databases in SQL Server
How to delete a database in SQL Server? If you created a database incorrectly, or you have a database that is not needed any more, you can delete it with the "DROP DATABASE" statement with this syntax: DROP DATABASE database_name For example, execute this statement: DROP DATABASE FyiCenterData GO Th...
2016-11-24, 3028🔥, 0💬

Returning the Second 5 Rows from a Query in SQL Server
How To Return the Second 5 Rows in SQL Server? If you want to display query output in multiple pages with 5 rows per page, and the visitor wants to see the output for the second page, you need to display query output from row 6 to row 10. If you are using MySQL server, you can use the "LIMIT startRo...
2016-10-29, 3026🔥, 0💬

PHP ODBC - Including Date and Time Values in SQL Statements
PHP ODBC - How To Include Date and Time Values in SQL Statements? If you want to provide date and time values in a SQL statement, you should write them in the format of "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss", and quoted with single quotes ('). The tutorial exercise below shows you two INSERT statements. The first on...
2024-05-05, 3025🔥, 0💬

SINGLE_USER/MULTI_USER - Database User Access Options in SQL Server
How to set database to be SINGLE_USER in SQL Server? Databases in SQL Server have three user access options: MULTI_USER - All users that have the appropriate permissions to connect to the database are allowed. This is the default. SINGLE_USER - One user at a time is allowed to connect to the databas...
2016-11-20, 3022🔥, 0💬

Using Cursors in SQL Server Transact-SQL
Where to find answers to frequently asked questions on Using Cursors in SQL Server Transact-SQL? I want to loop through rows in a result set. Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team on Using Cursors in SQL Server Transact-SQL. Clear explanati...
2016-10-17, 3017🔥, 0💬

Creating Databases with Specified Physical Files in SQL Server
How to create database with physical files specified in SQL Server? If you don't like the default behavior of the CREATE DATABASE statement, you can specify the physical database files with a longer statement: CREATE DATABASE database_name ON (NAME = logical_data_name, FILENAME = physical_data_name,...
2016-11-24, 3016🔥, 0💬

Differences of CHAR and NCHAR in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What Are the Differences between CHAR and NCHAR in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Both CHAR and NCHAR are fixed length data types in Transact-SQL. But they have the following main differences: CHAR stores characters based on the code page with 1 byte per character most of the time. NCHAR stores characters...
2017-04-04, 3015🔥, 0💬

Performing Comparison on Exact Numbers in SQL Server
How To Perform Comparison on Exact Numbers in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Comparison operations on exact numbers of data types: BIT, INT, NUMERIC, etc., are very easy to understand. Here are some simple examples: -- BIT value comparison DECLARE @x BIT, @y BIT; SET @x = 0; SET @y = 1; SELECT CASE WHEN @...
2017-01-21, 3006🔥, 0💬

odbc_tables() - Listing All Tables in the Database
How To List All Tables in the Database using odbc_tables()? If you want to get a list of all tables in the database, you can use the odbc_tables() function, which can actually be used to list all tables and views in the database. The syntax of odbc_tables() is: $result_set = odbc_tables($connection_...
2024-07-11, 3004🔥, 0💬

Index Speeding Up SELECT Statements in SQL Server
Does Index Speed Up SELECT Statements in SQL Server? If you want to see the impact of indexes on SELECT statements, you can run the same SELECT statement on "fyi_links" and "fyi_links_indexed" tables. See the tutorial exercise below: USE FyiCenterData; GO -- Run SELECT on the table without indexes D...
2016-11-13, 3003🔥, 0💬

Deleting All Rows with TRUNCATE TABLE Statement in SQL Server
How To Delete All Rows with TRUNCATE TABLE Statement in SQL Server? If you want to delete all rows from a table, you have two options: Use the DELETE statement with no WHERE clause. Use the TRUNCATE TABLE statement. The TRUNCATE statement is more efficient the DELETE statement. The tutorial exercise...
2016-10-30, 2996🔥, 0💬

Differences between Functions and Stored Procedures in SQL Server
What Are the Differences between User Defined Functions and Stored Procedures in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Differences between user defined functions and stored procedures are: Stored procedures does not return any data and they can not be used in expressions. User defined functions does return data ...
2016-12-24, 2993🔥, 0💬

Renaming Database Names in SQL Server
How to rename databases in SQL Server? If don't like the name of a database, you can change it by using the "ALTER DATABASE" statement with the following syntax: ALTER DATABASE database_name MODIFY NAME = new_database_name The tutorial example below shows you how change the database name from "FyiCe...
2016-11-24, 2985🔥, 0💬

Using Subqueries in the FROM Clause in SQL Server
How To Use Subqueries in the FROM Clause in SQL Server? If you have a query returning many rows of data, and you want to perform another query on those rows, you can put the first query as a subquery in the FROM clause of the second query. A subquery used in this way become a temporary table, and yo...
2016-10-29, 2981🔥, 0💬

Testing DML Triggers in SQL Server
How To Test a DML Trigger in SQL Server? To test a DML trigger defined on a table, you just need to execute several INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements on that table as shown in this tutorial example: USE FyiCenterData; GO INSERT INTO fyi_users (name) VALUES ('FYI Admin'); GO Records are inserted, ...
2016-10-25, 2981🔥, 0💬

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