Comments on: SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 8 of 31 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/ Personal Notes of Pinal Dave Fri, 17 May 2013 15:26:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Roger http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-424025 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:31:06 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-424025 Hello,
I have xml document contains non-english text iei.heybru . I want to parse that xml and inser data into table.

I have created proc and taking paramenter as nvarchar(max) for xml.
when I parse the xml heybru text gets converted into quetionmarks.
kindly guide on the same.

]]> By: padhu http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-423862 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:24:38 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-423862 Yes we can use

]]> By: Ravikant sharma http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-354803 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:52:04 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-354803 Vry usefull knowladge here

]]> By: srinu http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-322832 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:48:24 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-322832 HI,

can we use group by clause in sub query?

]]> By: Brian Ezell http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-313119 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:32:04 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-313119 “A global temporary table remains in the database accessible across the connections. Once the connection where original global table is declared dropped this becomes unavailable.” – Actually the temp table is available until the last connection that references it is dropped, not the originating connection.

]]> By: Nikhildas http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-281309 Wed, 02 May 2012 05:40:18 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-281309 Dear Pinal Sir,

In foreign key , Not only primary key but also unique key can have reference.

]]> By: Brad Purton http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-147304 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:54:06 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-147304 What about

select count(1) from Table1

This is more efficient on large datasets than count(*)

]]> By: SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Complete Downloadable List – Day 0 of 31 Journey to SQLAuthority http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-147141 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:17:11 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-147141 [...] SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 8 of 31 [...]

]]> By: pinaldave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-146910 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:01:43 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-146910 Corrected – Updated with referencing your comment.

Thanks – totally appreciate it.

]]> By: fastsolutionca http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-146900 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:52:04 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-146900 Unless you’re trying to cater to folks interviewing for jobs involving SQL Server 2000, I would swap out the query against sys.indexes for a query against sys.dm_db_partition_stats. I’d also drop the select * suggestion, and explain the difference between COUNT(*) against the table, and using the DMV.

]]> By: Rhys http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-146895 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:25:53 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-146895 “Enterprise Editions only supports log shipping” – every version except express supports log shipping. http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/editions-compare.aspx

]]> By: Yuvraj Gautam http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-146851 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:47:45 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-146851 This may also be an alternate way to Count of the Number of Records.

select max(rn) as counts from (
select row_number() OVER (ORDER BY NEWID()) as rn from [tablename]
)tb1

]]> By: pinaldave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/07/08/sql-server-interview-questions-and-answers-frequently-asked-questions-day-8-of-31/#comment-146786 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:29:07 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=13309#comment-146786 A small error and one typo has been fixed. Please look at the original content in the post before leaving comment to see if you are going to comment on the same.
Thanks.

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