IN with NULL can produce UNKNOWN instead of false. Compare a positive match, an unmatched value and a missing input without hiding the truth state.
SQL SERVER – 2008 – Creating Primary Key, Foreign Key and Default Constraint
How to create a Primary Key, Foreign Key and Default constraint in SQL Server 2008, at column level, at table level, or after the table already exists.
SQL SERVER – Find Primary Key Using SQL Server Management Studio
Need to drop a primary key but do not know the constraint name? Imran Mohammed shows how to find primary key details using SQL Server Management Studio.
SQL SERVER – 2008 – Creating Full Text Catalog and Full Text Search
Set up Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008 in three steps: create a full-text catalog, create the full-text index, then populate it. Screenshots for each step.
SQLAuthority Author Visit – SQL SERVER – User Group Meeting – Ahmedabad – August 30, 2008
At the August 30 Ahmedabad User Group meeting we talked about the quality of programmers and hiring, and why free user groups are great for developers.
COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS: Restore Text With Its Original Type
COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS return binary data, so I restore text with its original character type explicitly. A decompressed value is not automatically a readable string. Its bytes still need the correct interpretation.
SQL SERVER – Introduction to Filtered Index – Improve performance with Filtered Index
A Filtered Index in SQL Server 2008 indexes only some rows of a table, which can speed up queries and cut index storage and upkeep. Example on the Employee table.