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SQL Triggers – An Introduction Contents Introduction Magic Tables Difference between Stored Procedure and Trigger DML Triggers After Triggers Syntax of the After trigger Example of After Trigger for Insert Example of After Trigger for Delete Example of After Trigger for Update Instead of Triggers DDL Triggers DDL Trigger for Create Table DDL Trigger for […]
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SQL server gives the exception/error handling mechanism which is similar to c#, Try..Catch block. In SQL Server, we can write the SQL Statements within the Try block and if any exception occurred control automatically goes to the group of SQL Statements written inside the next Catch block. The syntax for Try..Catch is given below:- BEGIN […]
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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 of Expression/Values to determine the result or it can be a search case expression where […]
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Pivot Table:- Pivot tables are used to summarize and display the data, specially in case of report data by means of aggregating the values. Pivot table can be used if we want to display the unique values of the column of a table as the columns of another table. It turns the unique values of a specified […]
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Common table expression (CTE):- Common table expression or CTE can be described as the temporary, named record set return by the execution of the query (insert, delete, update, select or update view statement). It is not stored as an object in the database and it last only till the execution of the SQL Query. It […]
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SQL FUNCTION: – Function in a database can be defined as the code segment consisting of a logical group of SQL statements which takes some input arguments (if required), run in a sequential order and returns the output either in the form of a single value or in the form of a table.Through this article, […]
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Sometimes our application required a database object which allows manipulation of data from a set of rows on row by row basic which means single row at a time. Cursor is the database object which solves this problem. With the use of cursor, we can fetch a sets of rows based on some conditions and manipulate the data of […]
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Views:- View can be described as virtual table which derived its data from one or more than one table columns.It is stored in the database. It is used to implements the security mechanism in the Sql Server. For example, suppose there is table called Employeeinfo whose structure is given below:- Create table EmployeeInfo(EmpId int, EmpName […]
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Indexes-Indexing is way to sort and search records in the table. It will improve the speed of locating and retrieval of records from the table.It can be compared with the index which we use in the book to search a particular record. In Sql Server there are two types of Index 1) Clustered Index 2) […]
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I generally feel that people are afraid of Joins in SQL Server. But if they know what the different types of Joins in SQL Server are and how they can be best used then they really enjoy using them. By using the joins we can get data from many tables based on some logical conditions. […]
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