An interesting way of aliasing TIP#107

I recently gone through something and found a unique way of aliasing. I thought it must be share so other techies also aware of it (or might be you already aware of it). See below example SELECT *FROM (VALUES (‘Rajat’,30),             (‘Sandeep’,40),             (‘Sunil’,35),             (‘Shreya’,50),             (‘Virendra’,45)) AS T(Name,Runs) Now when you it  you will get following result …

A simple way for consistency TIP #106

  Whenever we develop application of maintain application we define sets of rules or policies  like naming convention , data type, database & SQL SERVER properties (like which property should be unable or disable)  but the problem is to cross check or to enforce these properties is very tedious. To enforce the policies SQL SERVER …

Proper Aliasing will help you somewhere TIP#104

Recently, When we were delivering session on “SQL SERVER” one of the persons asked why we require Aliasing so I thought this might be question in everyone’s mind. So lets start with couple of well know statements then we will see the actual problem where we need it explicitly. There are two type of aliasing …

A myth about view TIP #102

  I don’t know why every interviewer’s favorite question “Can we insert record using View ?” If you say Yes/No the interviewer will roaming around like so Can you update record using View?  or Can you delete record using view ? I  hope everyone who is reading this article will be aware of what is …

Bulk Copy Program (BCP)–A simple way to export data in a file TIP#101

  Let’s consider a scenario where the end user require a CSV file of all the records in a table then BCP is one of the simplest way. BCP stands for Bulk copy program. By the name you got the feeling of lots of data . Although, there are various options & parameters available with …

Find all the dates in a date range ? TIP #100

  It’s almost one month that I didn’t write anything on the blog due to some personal reason. I am really sorry for that. Now , Lets talk about the scenario sometimes we need to generate a report of total sales in particular date range but the condition is you need to show all the …

How to hide my SQL Server instance in network ? TIP #99

  In TIP #70  we saw how to find all the running SQL SERVER instance in a network or a machine. to revise see below image. This tip is just opposite to tip #70 you don’t want that your co-worker see your SQL Server instance running on your machine machine. (There are several reason behind …