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SQL SERVER – 2005 – Transferring Ownership of a Schema to a User

April 5, 2008

One of the blog reader asked me how transfer of ownership of schema to another users. Follow the simple script and you will be able to transfer ownership of schema to another user. ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON SCHEMA::SchemaName TO UserName; GO Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

SQL SERVER – Find Nth Highest Salary of Employee – Query to Retrieve the Nth Maximum value

April 2, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts

This question is quite a popular question and it is interesting that I have been receiving this question every other day. I have already answer this question here. “How to find Nth Highest Salary of Employee”. Please read my article here to find Nth Highest Salary of Employee table :…

SQL SERVER – 2005 – List All Column With Identity Key In Specific Database

March 29, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Identity, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table

Question I received in Email : How to list all the columns in the database which are used as identity key in my database?

SQL SERVER – Introduction to sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info

March 28, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table

Many times when I am just bored I surf Book On Line for SQL Server 2005. Almost all the time I find something new which makes me believe that I have lot to learn and there are so many things I am not aware of. Today I found system catalog view sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info. I just enjoyed reading about it and now I will share this with you.

SQL SERVER – 2005 – Find Index Fragmentation Details – Slow Index Performance

March 27, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL System Table

Just a day ago, while using one index I was not able to get the desired performance from the table where it was applied. I just looked for its fragmentation and found it was heavily fragmented. After I reorganized index it worked perfectly fine. Here is the quick script I…

SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle Using Union and Union All – Answer

March 25, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Database, SQL Joins, SQL Scripts

Yesterday I posted a puzzle SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle Using Union and Union All, today we will see the answer of this. Following image explains the answer of puzzle. You can read the explanation of why this is answer read my previous article SQL SERVER – Union vs. Union…

SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle Using Union and Union All

March 24, 2008

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Utility

I often get request to write puzzles using SQL Server. Today, I am presenting one very simple but very interesting puzzle. What will be the output of following two SQL Scripts. First try to answer without running this two script in Query Editor. Script 1 SELECT 1 UNION ALL (SELECT…