Dating for DBAs

Foreign Keys

The BIT data type

Operators

Deleting large number of rows from a table in a VLDB

For enterprise systems, purging data is a reality. Today, we will see some strategies that I recently implemented to make this process work efficiently.

T-SQL

Using Dynamic SQL in Stored Procedures

Dynamic SQL allows stored procedures to “write” or dynamically generate their SQL statements. The most common use case for dynamic SQL is stored procedures with optional parameters in the WHERE clause. These are typically called from reports or screens that have multiple, optional search criteria. This article describes how to write these types of stored procedures so they execute well and resist SQL injection attacks.

Scaled-down SQL

Data conversion

Create stored procedure