SQL Server – Filtering objects in Object Explorer – Management Studio
When you are working on a database with a large number of objects sometimes it becomes a challenge to locate...
2013-05-28
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SQL Server – Show/Hide Results Pane in Management Studio 2012
In earlier version of SQL Server Management Studio (2005, 2008 and 2008 R2) you can show/hide results pane using keyboard...
2013-05-20
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SQL Server – How to Move Table to Another Schema
Starting with SQL Server 2005 all tables are grouped into schemas. While creating a table if the schema name is...
2013-05-13
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SQL Server – Finding TCP Port Number SQL Instance is Listening on
By default SQL Server listens on TCP port number 1433, and for named instances TCP port is dynamically configured. There...
2013-05-07 (first published: 2013-05-01)
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SQL Server – How to find Default data and log path for SQL Server 2012
To identify default data and log directories in SQL Server 2012 you can use SERVERPROPERTY() function. In SQL Server 2012...
2013-05-06
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SQL Server – How to check if you are running 32-bit or 64-bit version
There are two different command you can use to check if you are running 32-bit or 64-bit version of SQL...
2013-04-22
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SQL Server – Differences between Clustered and Non-Clustered Indexes
Both Clustered and Nonclustered Indexes have same physical structure in SQL Server. Both are stored as a B-Tree structure in...
2013-04-19
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SQL Server – Add Date/Time to output file of BCP / SQLCMD
You can export data from SQL Server using BCP command for SQLCMD utility. However, these utilities does not support dynamic...
2013-04-17 (first published: 2013-04-09)
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SQL Server – Import Data from Excel using T-SQL
To import data from an Excel file to SQL Server you can use SQL Server Import and Export Wizard. You...
2013-04-15
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SQL Server – Add Date/Time to output file of BCP / SQLCMD (2)
Last time I posted about How you can add date/time to output file name, in which I used xp_cmdshell to...
2013-04-12
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What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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