Janice has two tables, Employees and Orders. She...

What does the ERROR_PROCEDURE() function return?

get rich schema details of all or some tables

to get information about tables+columns+primarykeys+foreignkeys+identity, i firstly used SQL server built-in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.xxx. however, my company have various DBAs and each of them owns objects. when using INFORMATION_SCHEMA.xxx, it retrieves data based on current login (version 2005 resolves this schema v.s. object owner problem already... yeah) , which bring me a great trouble. if you want […]

What does @@options return?

Exploring NewSequentialID() in SQL Server 2005

The benefits and drawbacks of GUIDs as primary keys are generally known. Despite the drawbacks, some people use them to fulfill specific business requirements (the IDs are unique across multiple servers).

Rank the results of the following select statements...

In the REPEATABLE READ isolation level, what phenomena...

UDF: Parse a delimited list of paramters

After replying to a post today I thought I'd share this with all.This is a user defined function that I use to return a table of parameters passed in a parameter string. Function UsageSelect * From dbo.fnParseParamString ([@ParamString='Delimited String of parmaters'],[@Delimeter='Delimiting Character'])Lets say you are concatenating a list of form data from a web page […]

Which of the following datatypes can be represented...

SQL 2005 for the SQL2K Developer Part 2

Continuing with his series on SQL Server 2005 from the developer's perspective, M. ChoirulAmri examines the ROW_NUMBER function and gives a few examples of how you can use this in your application.