Using group by on multiple columns

Group By X means put all those with the same value for X in the one group. Group By X, Y means put all those with the same values for both X and Y in the one group. To illustrate using an example, let’s say we have the following table, to do with who is attending what subject at … Read more

Difference between View and table in sql

A table contains data, a view is just a SELECT statement which has been saved in the database (more or less, depending on your database). The advantage of a view is that it can join data from several tables thus creating a new view of it. Say you have a database with salaries and you need to … Read more

Cast from VARCHAR to INT – MySQL

As described in Cast Functions and Operators: The type for the result can be one of the following values: BINARY[(N)] CHAR[(N)] DATE DATETIME DECIMAL[(M[,D])] SIGNED [INTEGER] TIME UNSIGNED [INTEGER] Therefore, you should use:

Sql query to insert datetime in SQL Server

You will want to use the YYYYMMDD for unambiguous date determination in SQL Server. If you are married to the dd-mm-yy hh:mm:ss xm format, you will need to use CONVERT with the specific style. 5 here is the style for Italian dates. Well, not just Italians, but that’s the culture it’s attributed to in Books Online.