INSERT INTO

Unary & Aliases

Database Collation

Grouping Sets

This script is to check for Queries returning same result set.

Stairway to T-SQL DML

This Stairway will provide you with a basic understanding of how to work with data from SQL Server tables, using SQL Server’s Transact-SQL (T-SQL) dialect. DML is the Data Manipulation Language, and is the aspect of the language dealing with the data. It includes the statements SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE. This Stairway will as also provide some history of the SQL language and some general concepts about set theory. Each level will build upon the prior level, so by the time you are finished you will have a good understanding of how to select and modify data from SQL Server.

Mimicking Magnetic Tape in SQL

The sequential nature of early data storage devices such as punched card and magnetic tape once forced programmers to devise algorithms that made the best of sequential access. These ways of doing data-processing have become so entrenched that they are still used in modern relational database systems. There is now a better way, as Joe Celko explains.

The OVER Clause enhancements in SQL Server code named “Denali”, CTP3

A look at how the OVER clause is changing in SQL 11, based on the CTP 3 released to the public.

Copy One Schema to Another Schema

This script copies one object in another multiple schema.

The Right Kind Of Join

Truncate and Delete