Yearly Archives: 2013

Happy New Year 2014

                              HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 Wishing all of the readers of this blog a very happy New Year. Thanks for supporting me and my blog last … Continue reading

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Deleting Duplicate rows using CTE

Deleting Duplicate rows using CTE Many times we caught in a situation where we have a table where there is no primary or unique column defined in it and rows with duplicate data inserted in the table. In this example … Continue reading

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Answer -Question of the Week – 25/12/2013- Question 1

Question:- Suppose we have a table says tbl_students whose structure is given below:- Create table tbl_students(Studentid int identity(1,1) , Studentname nvarchar(150)) Suppose it contains the following data:- Studentid  Studentname 1               Vivek Johari 2 … Continue reading

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Question of the Week – 28/12/2013 – Question 2

Question:- Suppose we have a table named tbl_charactername have only one column say “charactername”. It contains 10 rows. First 5 rows contains “Vivek Johari” and the next 5 rows contains “Abhinav Golwalkar” tbl_charactername ——————— Vivek Johari Vivek Johari Vivek Johari … Continue reading

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Question of the Week -25/12/2013- Question1

Suppose we have a table says tbl_students whose structure is given below:- Create table tbl_students(Studentid int identity(1,1) , Studentname nvarchar(150)) Suppose it contains the following data:- Studentid   Studentname  1               Vivek Johari 2 … Continue reading

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Ranking Functions in SQL Server

Ranking Function:- Sometimes we need to provide a Row number to the rows in a table or within a partition. For example, suppose we want to give rank to sales man according to their sales amount in a particular month/year. … Continue reading

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Stuff VS Replace function in SQL Server

Stuff VS Replace function Stuff Function This function is used to replace string from the given start position, passed as 2nd argument with string passed as last argument. In Stuff function, 3rd argument defines the number of characters which are … Continue reading

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Case Statement/ Expression in SQL Server

Case Statement/ Expression in SQL server  Sometimes we need to get one result output from multiple possible outcomes based on the evaluation of some expression. This expression can be a simple case expression which compares an expression with a set … Continue reading

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