SQL Server – Various methods to generate unique number sequence
Hi all, Friends, most of the time we used ranking function like ROW_NUMBER() when it required to generate unique number...
2015-09-28
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SQL Server – Methods to find running totals of a column
HI friends, in some working scenario or during interviews we got the task to find the running totals of a...
2015-09-14
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SQL Server – Using Window ranking function with UPDATE statement
Hi friends, I was working on a scenario in which I need to assign a unique values to a column....
2015-09-08
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SQL Server – Sparse Column Property using SELECT INTO
Hi friends, in our day to day work we used SELECT…INTO clause to create replica of a table for different...
2015-08-03
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SQL Server 2016 Blogs
Hi friends, As you all know that SQL Server CTP2 has released with new great features. Here is the list of...
2015-07-26
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Change in sys.dm_exec_query_stats in SQL Server 2016
Sys.dm_exec_query_stats is most commonly used DMO used by DBA and developers to find out the information about queries involving query...
2015-07-25
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Changes in In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server 2016
In SQL Server 2014 a new feature In-Memory OLTP was introduced which was referred as ‘Hekaton’. This feature was introduced...
2015-07-23
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Introduction To Temporal Tables In SQL Server 2016
Hi friends, today I will get you introduced with another new feature of SQL Server 2016 i.e. Temporal Tables. SQL...
2015-07-23 (first published: 2015-07-20)
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Introduction To Query Store In SQL Server 2016 – Part 2
Hi friends, today we will continue with Query Store in SQL Server 2016. In previous blog we learnt about what...
2015-07-17
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Introduction To Query Store In SQL Server 2016 – Part 1
Hi friends, in next few blogs we will explore another new feature named Query Store which gets introduced in SQL...
2015-07-16
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UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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