I have been working with the database for many years and I am aware of many common terminologies. Recently I was attending training myself and the instructor used the word ‘CTAS’ in the class. One of the attendees did not know the definition of this abbreviation. From this, I realized that not all of us come from the same background and we all have different levels and areas of expertise.
SQL SERVER – 2012 – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets – New
After reading my earlier article SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets, one of the readers asked if this new feature (syntax) support multiple resultset of the stored procedure? Very interesting question indeed as most of the stored procedures that I usually come across have more than…
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Here is a normal conversation I heard when I saw that the function (UDF) was used instead of the procedure (SP). Q: Why are you using User Defined Function instead of Stored Procedure? A: I cannot SELECT from SP, but I can from UDF. SQL Server’s next version ‘Denali’ is…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Azure – Creating Database and Connecting Database
I recently logged into new Azure Portal and I really think the product team has done excellent job to make it user-friendly and self intuitive. Here are the quick steps I have done after I logged into the portal here: Purchased subscription Created Server Created Database Connect using Database Honestly…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – Pluralsight On-Demand FREE for SQL Server Course
The Moral of Story You can watch the most popular SQL Server – TSQL course on Pluralsight On-Demand for FREE for the next 48 hours. It starts NOW! The Story Learning is always difficult. After learning how to apply your knowledge, learning in real life is even more difficult. Technology…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – 1700th Blog Posts – Over 25 Millions of Views – A SQL Milestone
It has been a tradition in this blog to write a “milestone blog post” for every 100th post. I am always looking forward to this because I am given a chance to do only three times a year. This year 2011 has been very nice to me so far- lots…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – How to ALTER CONSTRAINT
After reading my earlier blog post SQL SERVER – Prevent Constraint to Allow NULL. I recently received question from user regarding how to alter the constraint. No. We cannot alter the constraint, only thing we can do is drop and recreate it. Here is the CREATE and DROP script. CREATE…
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