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SQL SERVER – Repeate String N Times Using String Function REPLICATE

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL String
I came across this SQL String Function few days ago while searching for Database Replication. This is T-SQL Function and it repeats the string/character expression N number of times specified in the function. SELECT REPLICATE( ' https://blog.sqlauthority.com/ ' , 9 ) This repeats the string https://blog.sqlauthority.com/ to 9 times in…
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SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Microsoft(R) SQL Server 2005 Unleashed (Paperback)

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQLAuthority Book Review
SQLAuthority.com Book Review : Microsoft(R) SQL Server 2005 Unleashed (Paperback) by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein Link to book on Amazon Short Review : SQL Server 2005 Unleashed is focused on Database Administration and day-to-day administrative management aspects of SQL Server. All the chapters of this…
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SQL SERVER – Comparison Index Fragmentation, Index De-Fragmentation, Index Rebuild – SQL SERVER 2000 and SQL SERVER 2005

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server DBCC, SQL Server Security, SQL Utility
Index Fragmentation: When a page of data fills to 100 percent and more data must be added to it, a page split occurs. To make room for the new data, SQL Server must move half of the data from the full page to a new page. The new page that…
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SQL SERVER – Explanation and Comparison of NULLIF and ISNULL

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, SQL Function, SQL NULL, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Explanation of NULLIF
Syntax:
NULLIF ( expression , expression )

Returns a null value if the two specified expressions are equal. NULLIF returns the first expression if the two expressions are not equal. If the expressions are equal, NULLIF returns a null value of the type of the first expression. NULLIF is equivalent to a searched CASE function in which the two expressions are equal and the resulting expression is NULL.

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