Microsoft has integrated Python in SQL Server 2017 which can be used for in-database analysis purpose. In this post, we are going to explore “Why Python and how to use it in SQL Server 2017”, and then we will explore that how we can use it in SQL Server 2017. Why Python Python is a […]
Microsoft has launched the most recent SQL Server 2017 release candidate (RC1, July 2017). It can be downloaded from this link. SQL Server 2017 will run on both Windows as well as on Linux OS. It also supports macOS via Docker too. In this post, we will discuss the new features of SQL Server 2017.
In this post, “Specific row at the top then sort the rest result set in SQL Server“, we are going to learn that how we can order a result set in a customized way which cannot be achieved using ORDER by Clause in a simple way. To demonstrate this, let’s create a sample table named as “tbl_Department” and insert
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In SQL Server, if we use the NEWID() function inside an user-defined function, it throws an error as “Invalid use of side-effecting or time-dependent operator in ‘newid()’ within a function.” For any reason, if we need to use the NEWID() function inside an user-defined function, we need to do some work around. In this post,
In this post, we are going to learn how to extract the first numeric value from an alphanumeric string in SQL Server. To demonstrate this, we will create a dummy table and then we will insert some dummy rows into that table. Finally, we will use a SELECT statement to extract the first numeric value
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What is a covering index A covering index is an index which satisfies all the columns being used in a query without performing a further lookup either to the clustered index or to the base table. It contains all the columns whether they are used in SELECT, JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY, or ORDER BY clause of the
Finally, STRING_SPLIT function, one of the most awaiting feature for a long time, has been introduced by Microsoft. In SQL Server 2016, now, we have a built-in system function to split a string with a specified separator. Earlier, whenever we had to map a denormalized string (e.g. comma separated string values) with the values stored in a table column (normalized
We are already familiar with DATEDIFF function introduced in the very initial version of SQL Server. But, in SQL Server 2016, Microsoft has introduced DATEDIFF_BIG function which can be used to compute the difference between two given dates in terms of the given date part. In this post, we are going to explore the use of
We have already published a post on “Read XML Data as a table in SQL Server” and “Read and compare XML nodes dynamically with unknown elements“. In this post, we will see that how we can skip levels in XML string to read all the elements at a given level regardless of the level name. A wildcard character * (asterisk) can be used
Microsoft has launched the SQL Server 2016. We can download and install it from here. However, when we start installation of SQL Server 2016, we can see some installation changes there. Prior to SQL Server 2016, “SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)” was a part of the feature list of main SQL Server installation (which starts after clicking
