Different types of ANSI standard joins
INNER JOIN (SIMPLE JOIN): This returns all rows for which there is at least one match in BOTH tables. This is...
2016-09-26
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Arun Kumar
- Interests: Database developer and designing
What does UNION do or what result set UNION return ? What is the difference between UNION and UNION ALL?
UNION merges the contents of two structurally-compatible tables into a single combined table. This return unique records from all the...
2016-09-26
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What will be the result of the query below? Explain your answer?
select case when null = null then 'True' else 'False' end as ResultSet;
2016-09-26
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SPACE
USE CASE: When we are working on TSQL or some text based scripting we may need some extra space in between...
2016-09-04
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STUFF
Use case when we are working on TSQL or Query ,some time we came such a situation when we need...
2016-09-04
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Common uses of stored Procedure sp_MSforeachtable
We will get the brief idea about undocumented procedure sp_MSforeachtable of the Master database.
sp_MSforeachtable can be used to loop through all...
2016-05-09
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Generate list of all Month name
DECLARE @year INT
SET @year = 2016
;WITH months AS(
SELECT 1 AS Mnth, DATENAME(MONTH, CAST(@year*100+1 AS VARCHAR) + '01') AS monthname
UNION ALL
...
2016-04-11
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Get each table space and their rows count
Sometime we need to know how much table space are used to store the data and also wish to know...
2016-04-11
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SQL Basics for Beginner
SQL BasicsAn instruction to a database to combine data from more than one table.A SQL join combines records from two or more...
2016-02-08
909 reads
SQL Create Table
SQL CREATE TABLEThe CREATE TABLE statement is used to create a table in a database to stored data.Tables are organized...
2016-02-08
196 reads
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The Decoded Value
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers