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What Is a Boolean Value in SQL Server
What Is a Boolean Value in SQL Server Transact-SQL? A Boolean value indicates a condition in a state of TRUE or FALSE. In Transact-SQL language, there is not storage data type defined to store a Boolean value. So Boolean values can only exist temporarily as part of the execution of Transact-SQL expr... 2017-01-29, 2563🔥, 0💬

Truncating DATETIME Values to Dates without Time in SQL Server
How To Truncate DATETIME Values to Dates without Time in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Assuming that you have some date and time, DATETIME, values, and you want to work with dates only. You want to truncate them to dates without time, or with time of 00:00:00.000. Again, SQL Server offers no simple solut... 2017-02-08, 2554🔥, 0💬

Database in Use When Renaming a Database in SQL Server
Why I am getting this error when renaming a database in SQL Server? If you are trying to rename a database that is in use, you will get an error message like this: "The database could not be exclusively locked to perform the operation." Before renaming a database, you must stop all client sessions u... 2016-11-20, 2554🔥, 0💬

"CREATE FUNCTION" - Creating User Defined Functions in SQL Server
How To Create a Simple User Defined Function in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If you want to create a simple user defined function, you can use the "CREATE FUNCTION" command with a statement block in a simple format as shown in below: CREATE FUNCTION function_name() RETURNS data_type AS BEGIN statement_1... 2016-12-24, 2552🔥, 0💬

Finding the Login Name Linked to a Given User Name in SQL Server
How To Find the Login Name Linked to a Given User Name in SQL Server? If you know a user name in a database and you want to find out which login name is linked this user name, you need to check the Security ID (SID) of the user name based on the following rules: Each login name is associated a uniqu... 2017-08-25, 2546🔥, 0💬

Generating CREATE FUNCTION Scripts on Existing Functions in SQL Server
How To Generate CREATE FUNCTION Script on an Existing Function in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If you want to know how an existing user defined function was created, you can use SQL Server Management Studio to automatically generate a "CREATE FUNCTION" script The following tutorial shows you how to do t... 2016-12-18, 2542🔥, 0💬

Boolean Values and Logical Operations in SQL Server Transact-SQL
Where to find answers to frequently asked questions on Boolean Values and Logical Operations in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers compiled by FYIcenter.com DBA team on Boolean Values and Logical Operations in SQL Server Transact-SQL. Clear answer... 2017-01-29, 2541🔥, 0💬

Performing Comparison on Date and Time Values in SQL Server
How To Perform Comparison on Date and Time Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Comparison operations on date and time values can be performed in the same way as numeric values. The comparison rule is simple: a date and time value in the future has a greater value than a date and time value in the pas... 2017-01-21, 2537🔥, 0💬

"sp_columns" - Getting a List of Columns in a Table in SQL Server
How To Get a List of Columns 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 table, you can use the "sp_columns" stored procedure to get a list of all columns of the specified table. The following tutori... 2016-11-17, 2532🔥, 0💬

"ALTER PROCEDURE" - Modifying Existing Stored Procedures in SQL Server
How To Modify an Existing Stored Procedure in SQL Server Transact-SQL? If you find a mistake in an existing stored procedure previously created, you can drop (delete) it and create it again correctly. But dropping a stored procedure may affect other database objects who are depending on this stored ... 2017-01-05, 2522🔥, 0💬

"DROP" Statements - Deleting database objects in SQL Server
How to delete database objects with "DROP" statements in SQL Server? To remove all database objects created by previous tutorials, you could just delete the database. However, in this tutorial, you will go through the steps to reverse every action you took doing the tutorial. Removing permissions an... 2016-11-27, 2517🔥, 0💬

Passing Expressions to Function Parameters in SQL Server
Can You Pass Expressions to Function Parameters in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Can you pass expressions to stored procedure parameters? The answer is yes. When executing functions, input values can be written as expressions. But the resulting value data type must match the parameter. The tutorial exerc... 2016-12-18, 2516🔥, 0💬

Attaching AdventureWorksLT Physical Files to the Server in SQL Server
How to attach AdventureWorksLT physical files to the server in SQL Server? After installed the sample database AdventureWorksLT, you need to attach it to your SQL server to make it available by follow this tutorial: EXEC sp_attach_db @dbname=N'AdventureWorksLT', @filename1=N'C:\Program Files\Microso... 2016-12-02, 2515🔥, 0💬

Default Schema of Your Login Session in SQL Server
What Is the Default Schema of Your Login Session in SQL Server? When you login to a SQL Server and select a database to use, SQL Server will assign your login session a default schema. The schema name can be omitted when you refer to objects in the default schema. Here is what you should remember ab... 2016-10-22, 2514🔥, 0💬

Downloading and Installing SQL Server 2005 Books Online in SQL Server
How to download and install SQL Server 2005 Books Online in SQL Server? 1. Go to the SQL Server 2005 Books Online download page . 2. Click the download button, the File Download box shows up. Save the download file to c:\temp. 3. Double click on the downloaded file: c:\temp\SqlServer2K5_BOL_Feb20 07.... 2016-12-04, 2507🔥, 0💬

Comments in SQL Server Transact-SQL Statements
How to enter comments in SQL Server Transact-SQL statements? There are 2 ways to enter comments within Transact-SQL statements: Starting comments with two dashes "--": Everything between "--" and the end of the line is treated as a comment. Entering comments between "/*" and "*/": Everything between... 2017-05-29, 2501🔥, 0💬

What Is ODBC (Open Database Communication)?
What Is Open Database Communication (ODBC)? ODBC, Open Database Communication, a standard API (application program interface) developed by Microsoft for Windows applications to communicate with database management servers. If you want to access a database server through an ODBC driver from an applic... 2024-08-14, 2499🔥, 0💬

Date/Time Data Type Comparison in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What are differences between date and time data types in SQL Server Transact-SQL? I want to compare of date and time data types? Here is a comparison table of all date and time data types supported in SQL Server Transact-SQL: Data type Storage size Precision Default Format / (bytes) Value range ----... 2017-02-25, 2499🔥, 0💬

Using Wildcard Characters in LIKE Operations in SQL Server
How To Use Wildcard Characters in LIKE Operations in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Wildcard character '%' can be used in the pattern string for the LIKE operator to match any string of zero or more characters. The following example uses '%Sport% Store' to search all company names that has a partial word ... 2017-01-21, 2498🔥, 0💬

Date and Time Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What are date and time data types supported in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Date and time data types are used to hold dates and times. There are 6 date and time data types supported in SQL Server Transact-SQL: 1. DATETIME - Use to hold date and times with a large precision using 8-byte storages: 4 bytes... 2017-04-15, 2493🔥, 0💬

Binary String Data Types in SQL Server Transact-SQL
What are binary string data types supported in SQL Server Transact-SQL? Binary string data types are used to hold binary character strings. There are 3 binary string data types supported in SQL Server Transact-SQL: 1. BINARY - Used to hold binary strings of a fixed length, specified in the format of... 2017-04-04, 2491🔥, 0💬

"sp_help" - Getting a List of Columns in a View in SQL Server
How To Get a List of Columns in a View using the "sp_help" Stored Procedure in SQL Server? Another way to get a list of columns from a view is to use the "sp_help" stored procedure. "sp_help" returns more than just a list of columns. It returns: the view information, the column information, the iden... 2016-11-05, 2485🔥, 0💬

Adding and Removing Days on Date and Time Values in SQL Server
How To Add or Remove Days on Date and Time Values in SQL Server Transact-SQL? SQL Server 2005 only support two operators on data and time values: + (Add): Adding days to a date and time value. - (Subtract): Removing days from a date and time value. Note that to add or subtract days on a date and tim... 2017-02-22, 2481🔥, 0💬

Selecting Some Specific Rows from a Table in SQL Server
How To Select Some Specific Rows from a Table in SQL Server? If you don't want select all rows from a table, you can specify a WHERE clause to tell the query to return only the rows that meets the condition defined in the WHERE clause. The WHERE clause condition is a normal Boolean expression. If an... 2016-10-26, 2475🔥, 0💬

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General MySQL Oracle SQL Server