Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Defining Variables
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Defining Variables: Defining Variables in SQL Server: Like other programming languages T-SQL allows to defining your...
2013-03-13
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Find Transaction Log information
Transaction Log in SQL server records all operation on database.This recoring depends on Recovery Model selected for database.You can find...
2013-03-08
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Search all running SQL Server instances over LAN
Sometimes you need to know how many and what instances of
SQL Server running in your organization over Network. You can...
2013-02-22
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Generate Random Passwords using T-SQL
Use following script to generate random Passwords
DECLARE @id int,@list varcharSET @list ='abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ23456789.,-_!$@#%^&*'selectreplace(SUBSTRING(CONVERT(varchar(255),NEWID()),8, 8),'-','')as RANDOM
Example:
Suppose you have a table tblUser with columns[id],[userid],[password].
CREATETABLE [dbo].[tblUser]( ...
2013-02-12
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Handling Null Values in SQL Server
What is NULL?
In SQL, A Null is an unknown or undefined value. Some interesting
operations on NULL.
--query --resultselect 3*NULL --NULLselect 3+NULL ...
2013-02-05
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Frequently asked SQL Server Queries
Data to test:
CREATETABLE [dbo].[emp]( [emp_id]
[nchar](10)NULL, [emp_name]
[nchar](10)NULL, [salary]
[int] NULL)ON [PRIMARY] insert emp( emp_id,emp_name,salary ) select'1','ABC',-20000 insert emp( emp_id,emp_name,salary ) select'2','XYZ',-5000 insert emp( emp_id,emp_name,salary ) select'3','PQR',-7800 insert emp( emp_id,emp_name,salary...
2013-02-04
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DBCC Commands for SQL Server
DBCC Commands:
DBCC commands are most useful for
performance and troubleshooting.
The DBCC Commands are used in Maintenance, Informational use, Validation on a
database,...
2013-01-28
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SQL Server
What is SQL Server?Microsoft SQL Server is Relational database management system (RDBMS) developed and owned by Microsoft. It is a software...
2013-01-28
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Frequently asked Scripts during Interviews
1.Select no of Months between two dates:
SELECT DATEDIFF(MONTH,'4/1/2011','01/23/2013')+ CASE WHENDAY('4/1/2011')<DAY('01/23/2013') THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
Output:
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22
2.What will be the
output of following...
2013-01-24
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FOR XML Clause
FOR XML CLAUSE: Sometimes we need to data in form of XML from
Database.SQL Server provide FOR XML Clause. For XML clause...
2012-12-26
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Blogs
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RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers