Find Nth highest salary using RANKING functions
Suppose you want to find nth highest salary from a table,Then
you can use DENSE_RANK() function.Here i show some example that...
2012-12-19
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Partitioning Table in SQL Server:
Partitioning Table in SQL Server: When your database has large tables. Then partitioning will be beneficial
in terms of performance, scalability and maintainability....
2012-12-10
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Sending Querying Data on Mail as Attached File
Sending
Querying Data on Mail:
Sometimes we need to send data fetched from query on
mail automatically. You can
create report and after running...
2012-12-07
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Linked Server setup with Oracle
Linked Server
Setup with Oracle in SQL Server:
Suppose you want to access data from
oracle or other database products using T-SQL via...
2012-10-23
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Basics of Indexes in SQL Server
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Basics of Indexes in SQL Server: Indexes in SQL Server: If you see a book, in...
2012-09-29
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Basics of Triggers in SQL Server
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Basics of Triggers in SQL Server: SQL Triggers: A trigger is a procedural code like stored...
2012-09-29
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Connection String from Visual Studio
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Connection String from Visual Studio: Connection String: A connection string contains connection information need to connect...
2012-09-22
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Data Types in SQL Server
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Data Types in SQL Server: Data Type Description Remarks BIGINT Used for large Integer data.(Range -2^63 ...
2012-09-22
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Error Handling in T-SQL
Error Handling in T-SQL: Error handling in T-SQL: Error handling in T-SQL is similer to other programming languages as C#,C++,Java.A...
2012-09-22
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Functions in SQL Server
Functions in SQL Server: Functions in SQL Server In SQL Server functions are subrotienes that encapsulate a group of T-SQL...
2012-09-22
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Encoding Strings
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Encoding Strings
I have this code in SQL Server 2025. What is the result?
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(@message); SELECT @encoded AS EncodedResult;See possible answers