SQL SERVER – Puzzle and Answer – REPLICATE over 8000 Characters
SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL and CONCAT
Have you ever worked with CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL earlier in your career? If yes, you will find this post very interesting for CONCAT.
SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #028
SQL SERVER – Adding Column Defaulting to Current Datetime in Table
Presenting a technical session is a greatest experience one can have and I enjoy doing the same. While I write this blog post, I am presenting at Great Indian Developer Summit in India. The event is a grand success and I am having a great time at this event. One of the questions which I often receive is how do one can add the column to existing table which will be auto-populated with the current datetime when the original row is inserted. There is indeed a simple solution to achieve this goal. One has to just create table with default value as a current datetime.
SQL SERVER – A New Approach to Scale .NET Applications
SQL SERVER – RESEED Identity Column in Database Table – Rest Table Identity Value – SQL in Sixty Seconds #051
Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 22 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.
Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 100Â Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.
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