SQL Data Introduction
This post is based on the stairway series at SQL Server Central called Stairway to Data, by Joe […]
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SQL Database Design Introduction
Over at the website SQL Server Central they have series of articles that they group into what they […]
SQL Server Exception Handling Part 12
This post is a continuation of Part 11. We have a table called dbo.Reports. We do not want […]
SQL Server Exception Handling Introduction
This post is part of a series of posts on exception handling in SQL Server. This post includes […]
SQL Server AdventureWorks2014 Installation
You may wish to install a sample database from Microsoft called Adventure Works 2014. The reason you may […]
SQL Server Exporting Data Programatically with bcp and xp_cmdshell
Many times you may find that you need to take some data in a table or tables and […]
SQL Server Exporting a Table to a Text File Part ...
This post continues from the first part. In this example the directory has a space in it so […]
SQL Server Exporting a Table to a Text File
This post describes how to export a SQL Server table to a text file using a stored procedure. […]
SQL Server char and varchar Data Types
CHAR is a fixed-length, non-Unicode string data. n defines the string length and must be a non-fractional value […]
SQL Server right() function with cast()
The right() function returns the right part of a character string with the specified number of characters. It […]
SQL Server UNION and UNION ALL
The UNION, EXCEPT and INTERSECT operators are relational operators that combine rows from the results sets of two […]
SQL Server Date Conversion Function
Here we have a couple of code examples that work with dates. The first one gets today’s date […]