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SQL SERVER – Five Puzzles around UNION – Participate in All Five

September 18, 2013

Earlier this week, I ran five part series on UNION and it received very good response. Today I learned from Amazon that for a brief period of the time (to be precise for next 96 hours) they have reduced the price for price of Kindle Book of SQL Server Interview…

SQL SERVER – Detecting Potential Bottlenecks with the help of Profiler

September 17, 2013

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Probably, everyone who writes SQL code has used INSERT statement, which alongside SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE, is a part of a basic operations’ set for data manipulation. At the first sight syntax of the INSERT statement may seem very trivial , especially when inserting one record – INSERT INTO ……

SQL SERVER – Execute Operating System Commands in sqlcmd

September 16, 2013

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

sqlcmd

Here is the email received just the other day – “Hi Pinal, I have been using sqlcmd for a long time and I find it very comfortable. I am going to soon learn Powershell as well. However, here is one typical problem I face it every day and I want to check…

Personal Technology – Who is Accessing your Google Account?

September 15, 2013

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Google, Personal Technology

Do you know who is accessing your Google Account? Well, I did not know till yesterday. However, when I learn what apps are accessing my Google Accounts and particularly Gmail, I was really really scared. I receive lots of emails and just like all of us, some are private and…

SQL SERVER – Memory Lane – Scrum, SQL Reboot and More – #046

September 14, 2013

Pinal Dave

SQL

Memory Lane, SQL Server

Let me know which one of the following is your favorite article from memory lane. My favorite article is about Scrum and SQL Reboot.

SQL – Weekend Project – Watching Technically Seth Series – What is your plan for this weekend?

September 13, 2013

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

NuoDB

“What is your plan for this weekend?” I was recently asked by my fellow colleague. I replied: “I have plan learn about Big Data and SQL from Technically Seth.” “Technically Seth!” He replied, “Never heard of him.” “Honestly even he has not heard of you.” I tried to look serious…

SQL SERVER – Automatically Store Results of Query to File with sqlcmd

September 12, 2013

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

sqlcmd

I receive lots of email everyday and I do answer almost every email I receive. However, I prefer to answer all the technical questions on my facebook page. With the help of social media it is very easy to reach out to multiple people with the same problem. Here is the…

SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle with UNION – Part 5

September 11, 2013

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Union clause, Union

It seems that my yesterday’s Simple Puzzle with UNION intrigued many readers. Here is my fifth and final part of this Puzzles with UNION. I strongly suggest to read yesterday’s puzzle before continuing today’s puzzle as it is very much based on yesterday’s puzzle. SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle with UNION…

SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle with UNION – Part 4

September 10, 2013

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Union clause, Union

When I started to write Simple Puzzle with UNION last week, I had no clue this will be extremely popular blog post and will turn into a mini-series. Earlier I wrote three different blog posts on this subject and they are very well received. All the three blog posts which…

SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle with UNION – Part 3

September 9, 2013

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Union clause, Union

Earlier last week I had two simple puzzles related to UNION clause and the response to those puzzles have been amazing. Lots of email I have received that people wants me to post such basics puzzle again. Well here is one more puzzle which uses UNION and tests your basic…