The year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to the next level. Here is an article which discusses the Author’s Perspective. Let us see a puzzle on date functions.
SQL SERVER – Methods for Accessing SQL Server XML Datatype – Quiz – Puzzle – 20 of 31
In this blog post, we will learn about methods for accessing SQL Server XML DataType. Here is an article which discusses the Author’s Perspective.
SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Perspectives of an Author
Today is the first day of year 2012 – Happy New Year!. This blog post is written by my co-author of SQL Server Interview Questions.
SQL SERVER – Mastering the Basics – Igniting Learning – A Unique Learning Experience
I had very clear idea what my goals were in the book. I believed in unique learning experience. Let us talk about it in today’s blog.
SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server CONCAT function
Just a day before I was presenting at Virtual Tech Days and I wanted to demonstrate the current time to audience using SQL Server Management Studio, I ended up a quick error. If any of you ever tried to concat multiple values of different datatype this should not be surprise to you.
SQL SERVER – Explain Error:166 : does not allow specifying the database name as a prefix to the object name – Puzzle to Win SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers Book
I was recently reading excellent Just Learned Tip regarding 3 part naming Cannot be used when dropping Views,Functions or Procedures. This is quite a well known tip however, every developer and DBA learns at sometime in their career with ‘hm…’ moment. To illustrate this further here is a simple case…
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