CASE IN statement with multiple values
Yes. You need to use the “Searched” form rather than the “Simple” form of the CASE expression
sql-server-2005
“select * into table” Will it work for inserting data into existing table
You should try Have a look at INSERT and SQL SERVER – Insert Data From One Table to Another Table – INSERT INTO SELECT – SELECT INTO TABLE
how to increment integer Columns value by 1 in SQL
My questions is how to increment a column’s value by 1. For example, suppose a column ID has values 1,2,3,4, .. Now when I update this table then ID column should increment by 1, Now ID will become 2,3,4,5, ..
How do I fix the error ‘Named Pipes Provider, error 40 – Could not open a connection to’ SQL Server’?
Solving this problem is very easy: Go to control panel. search for services. Open Local services window from your search results Restart your MSSQLSERVER service. Screenshot of the steps:
sql query to return differences between two tables
IF you have tables A and B, both with colum C, here are the records, which are present in table A but not in B: To get all the differences with a single query, a full join must be used, like this: What you need to know in this case is, that when a record can be found in A, but not in B, … Read more
How to format a numeric column as phone number in SQL
This should do it: Incorporated Kane’s suggestion, you can compute the phone number’s formatting at runtime. One possible approach would be to use scalar functions for this purpose (works in SQL Server):
Difference between database and schema
A database is the main container, it contains the data and log files, and all the schemas within it. You always back up a database, it is a discrete unit on its own. Schemas are like folders within a database, and are mainly used to group logical objects together, which leads to ease of setting … Read more
What is the difference between a stored procedure and a view?
A view represents a virtual table. You can join multiple tables in a view and use the view to present the data as if the data were coming from a single table. A stored procedure uses parameters to do a function… whether it is updating and inserting data, or returning single values or data sets. … Read more
What is the maximum characters for the NVARCHAR(MAX)?
The max size for a column of type NVARCHAR(MAX) is 2 GByte of storage. Since NVARCHAR uses 2 bytes per character, that’s approx. 1 billion characters. Leo Tolstoj’s War and Peace is a 1’440 page book, containing about 600’000 words – so that might be 6 million characters – well rounded up. So you could stick about 166 copies of the … Read more
What represents a double in sql server?
Or if you want to go old-school: You can also use float(53), but it means the same thing as float. (“real” is equivalent to float(24), not float/float(53).) The decimal(x,y) SQL Server type is for when you want exact decimal numbers rather than floating point (which can be approximations). This is in contrast to the C# “decimal” data type, which … Read more