What is an Identity?
Identity (or AutoNumber) is a column that automatically generates numeric values. A start and increment value can be set, but...
2016-01-26
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TSQL Circle Live
What is Normalization in SQL Server?
In relational database design, the process of organizing data to minimize redundancy is called normalization. It usually involves dividing a...
2016-01-26
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What is an execution plan? When would you use it? How would you view the execution plan?
An execution plan is basically a road map that graphically or textually shows the data retrieval methods chosen by the...
2015-12-28
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How do we insert the results of the stored procedure in a table?
This question has two crinkle answers –· When the table is already created.
· When the table is to be created run...
2015-11-13
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How we can convert Comma Separated Value to Rows and Vice Versa?
How we can convert Comma Separated Value to Rows and Vice Versa?
Basic fundamental
While we are working on reporting some circumstances...
2015-10-08
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HOW WE CAN GET WHO IS CONNECTED TO DATABASE?
Some time we need to know that who is using database as of now or who all are connected to...
2015-10-07
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Table valued parameters (TVP)
Table values parameters
How we can pass multiple rows in stored procedure or function as a parameter?
Table-valued parameters are a new...
2015-10-06
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Utility link for excel import to SQL
Utility link for excel import to SQL
Save Excel Data into Databases
http://www.savetodb.com/Connect to databases, edit data, and save changes back. Edit data...
2015-09-30
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers