SQL Triggers – An Introduction

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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Rebuild And Reorganization of Indexes

Rebuild and  Reorganization of Indexes SQL Server has the ability of maintaining the indexes whenever we makes changes (update, Insert, Delete) in the tables. Over a period of time, the may causes the fragmentation on the table in which  the logical ordering based on the key value pairs does not match with the physical ordering inside the data […]

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Fragmentation in SQL Server

Fragmentation:- Fragmentation can be defined as condition where data is stored in a non continuous manner. This article help in understanding the fragmentation in SQL Server. It can be defined into two types1. Internal Fragmentation 2. External Fragmentation Internal Fragmentation:- In this fragmentation, there exists a space between the different records within a page. This […]

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SQL Server- Output clause

Output Clause:- The SQL SERVER 2005 gives us an Output Clause which gives us the information about each row affected by the Insert, Update , Delete and Merge statement. It is more useful than @@scope_Identity and @@Identity column since these global variables gives us the information about the last inserted identity column value, but the Output clause gives us […]

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