In this post, we will count not null values from all the columns of a given table. One of my friend asked me to get the count of all not null values from all the columns of a given table. I used a CASE statement in my query and achieved this task but again i thought […]
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In this post “SP_EXECUTESQL vs Execute”, we are going to compare sp_executesql and execute in SQL Server. Apart from differences, we will also discuss the similarities between sp_executesql and execute commands. Lets start with few questions like, What is the difference between Execute and sp_ExecuteSQL? How can we execute a T-SQL String? Similarities between Execute and sp_ExecuteSQL.
In this post “Convert date range in date list”, we will convert a given date of range into list of dates as per the business requirement. Just have a look on mentioned demo table which has three columns CustomerID, StartDate and EndDate. I want to generate the date list for the given date range for each customer.
Difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE in SQL Server Let’s discuss this point “Truncate vs Delete” below in simple way. Delete is a DML statement whereas Truncate is a DDL statement. Delete commmand deletes each row from the table which are satisfying the WHERE clause and logs it in the log file where as Truncate command
What is Full Text Search in SQL Server? Full Text Search in SQL Server enables us to perform complex queries against character based data. Full Text Search supports char, varchar, nchar, nvarchar, text, ntext, image, varbinary and xml data types. We Can store document files in varbinary(max) format with their extensions and enable Full-Text search
Do you know what is FillFactor for an index? In this post, we will discuss about Fill Factor in SQL Server. Lets start discussion about FILLFACTOR in SQL Server. What is FILLFACTOR? Fill factor in SQL server is used to control the filled space of leaf pages with data. Remaining space is left to accommodate future
One of my colleague asked me a question that “Can we create a primary key without a clustered index?”. I answered him that “Yes, of-course!” and also did not forget to share this information to all of you in this post named “Create nonclustered primary key”. I know many of us are well aware of
In this post named “Dynamic management objects in SQL Server”, we will explore the DMVs and DMFs in SQL Server. Dynamic management views (DMVs) and dynamic management functions (DMFs) are used to extract current internal information of the Server State using T-SQL commands. Formerly such types of data were only available in Performance Monitor (a Microsoft
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Have you ever required to open SQL Server Management Studio Application (SSMS instance) as different windows user from your local machine? Sometimes we require to “Run SSMS instance as different Windows user” another machine which is not available physically to us. In such type of scenarios we can open our local SSMS instance as different windows
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In this topic “Deterministic and non-deterministic functions”, we are going to discuss the deterministic and non-deterministic functions in sql server. Lets start with “what is a deterministic function in sql server?”. It’s a common interview question also. I will elaborate the definition of deterministic as well as non-deterministic functions and also provide some good examples. So after
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