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SQL SERVER – Identifying Column Data Type of uniqueidentifier without...
I love interesting conversations with related to SQL Server. One of my friends Madhivanan always comes up with an interesting point of conversation. Here is one of the conversation between us. I am...
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SQL SERVER – Importing CSV File Into Database – SQL in Sixty Seconds #018 –...
Importing data into database is one of the most important tasks. I often receive questions regarding what is the quickest way to insert CSV data or how to import CSV Data into SQL Server Table....
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SQL SERVER – Template Browser – A Very Important and Useful Feature of SSMS
Let me start today’s blog post with a direction question. How many of you have ever used Template Browser? Template Browser is a very important and useful feature of SQL Server Management Studio...
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SQL SERVER – Discard Results After Query Execution – SSMS
The first thing I do any day is to turn on the computer. Today I woke up and as soon as I turned on the computer I saw a chat message from a friend. He was a bit confused and wanted me to help him....
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SQL SERVER – Tricks to Comment T-SQL in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #019 – Video
Code commeting is the one of the most common tasks developers perform. There are two major reasons why developer comment code. 1) During Debug 2) Documenting the code. While debugging the T-SQL code I...
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SQL SERVER – CTRL+SHIFT+] Shortcut to Select Code Between Two Parenthesis
Every weekend brings creative ideas and accidents brings best unknown secrets in front of us. Just a day while working with complex SQL Server code in SSMS I came across very interesting shortcut which...
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SQL SERVER – Remove Debug Button in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #020 – Video
SQL in Sixty Seconds is indeed tremendous fun to do. Every week, we try to come up with some new learning which we can share in Sixty Seconds. In this busy world, we all have sixty seconds to learn...
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SQL SERVER – 2012 Functions – FORMAT() and CONCAT() – An Interesting Usage
Before continuing this blog post I would like to bring your attention to two of my earlier blog post where I have written in depth about FORMAT and CONCAT function. String Function – FORMAT() – A Quick...
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SQL SERVER – Generate Script for Schema and Data – SQL in Sixty Seconds #021...
The biggest request we keep on getting in SQL in Sixty Seconds is tricks with SQL Server Management Studio. It seems like SSMS is our favorite tool and we all want to share our neat tricks with...
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SQL SERVER – How do I Record Video and Webcast – Milestone – 2200th Blog Post...
Earlier I used to do Milestone blog posts where at the interval I used to celebrate achievements. However, as time passed the achievements changes their value and importance. We all grow more and more...
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SQL SERVER – Color Coding SQL Server Management Studio Status Bar – SQL in...
I often see developers executing the unplanned code on production server when they actually want to execute on the development server. Developers and DBAs get confused because when they use SQL Server...
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SQL SERVER – Three Methods to Insert Multiple Rows into Single Table – SQL in...
One of the biggest ask I have always received from developers is that if there is any way to insert multiple rows into a single table in a single statement. Currently when developers have to insert any...
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SQL SERVER – Get Date and Time From Current DateTime – SQL in Sixty Seconds...
This is 25th video of series SQL in Sixty Seconds we started a few months ago. Even though this is 25th video it seems like we have just started this few days ago. The best part of this SQL in Sixty...
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SQL SERVER – SSMS Automatically Generates TOP (100) PERCENT in Query Designer
Earlier this week, I was surfing various SQL forums to see what kind of help developer need in the SQL Server world. One of the question indeed caught my attention. I am here regenerating complete...
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SQL SERVER – Effect of Collation on Resultset – SQL in Sixty Seconds #026 –...
Collation is a very important concept but often ignored. I have often seen developers either not understanding this or ignored it – this is plain wrong. In simple word we can say Collation is the...
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SQL SERVER – Replace a Column Name in Multiple Stored Procedure all together
I receive a lot of emails every day. I try to answer each and every email and comments on Facebook and Twitter. I prefer communication on social media as this gives opportunities to others to read the...
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SQL SERVER – Copy Column Headers from Resultset – SQL in Sixty Seconds #027 –...
SQL Server Management Studio returns results in Grid View, Text View and to the file. When we copy results from Grid View to Excel there is a common complaint that the column header displayed in...
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SQL SERVER – Identify Most Resource Intensive Queries – SQL in Sixty Seconds...
During performance tuning conversation the very first question people often ask is what are the queries offending the server or in another word let us identify the queries which are the most resource...
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SQL SERVER – Identify Most Resource Intensive Queries – SQL in Sixty Seconds...
There are a few questions I often get asked. I wonder how interesting is that in our daily life all of us have to often need the same kind of information at the same time. Here is the example of the...
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SQL SERVER – Resolving SQL Server Connection Errors – SQL in Sixty Seconds...
One of the most famous errors related to SQL Server is about connecting to SQL Server itself. Here is how it goes, most of the time developers have worked with SQL Server and knows pretty much every...
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