... yet to tread that path with SQLServer
2012. This edition of my book is for readers who wish to learn and develop on the free version of SQL
Server 2012, SQLServer2012 Express, or either the ... 1-15.
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Beginning SQLServer2012forDevelopers is for those people who see themselves as becoming either
developers, database administrators, or a mixture ... able to get to SQLServer by finding the executable on the C drive, SQL
Server will first check whether that user has a valid login within SQL Server. If the login isn’t valid, SQL
Server will...
... Installation
Welcome to BeginningSQLServer2012for Developers. This book has been written for those who are
interested in learning how to create solutions with Microsoft SQLServer 2012, but have ... CHAPTER 2 SQLSERVER MANAGEMENT STUDIO
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Figure 2 -3. SQLServer Management Studio graphical interface forSQLServer
5. The first area of SSMS you will look at is the Registered Servers explorer. ... to explore SQLServer2012. One of the best ways of managing SQLServer is by
using SQLServer Management Studio, which will be discussed next.
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... to SQLServer
informing it of the name of the database to remove. SQLServer then checks that nobody is currently connected to that
database. If someone is connected, through either SQLServer ... using SQLServer authentication, it will be the ID you used at connection time.
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Figure 3- 10. ... file group for simplicity.
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When you click the OK button, SQLServer actually performs several...
... certain
requirements for certain parts of the installation; for example, SQLServer Reporting Services,
a tool for producing reports from SQLServer that was an add-on with SQLServer 2000, requires ... Web Browser: Brings up a web browser within SQL Server, ideal for searching the web for answers to
SQL Server problems for which you may require information.
ã Other Windows: Allows you to access ... affect your T -SQL code. You can change the
environment in which you write T -SQL and how SSMS interacts with SQLServer when running
T -SQL.
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When we come to running T -SQL code...
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Figure 2-19. Query Execution
➤
SQLServer
➤
General options
SQL Server ➤ Advanced
This area deals with how SQLServer executes T -SQL code within ... book.
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SQL Server ➤ ANSI
Like the options for the previous area, the options for the ANSI area are ... are not meant for novice SQLServer developers, although you’ll have no
problems with them after you learn the basics of SQL Server.
Now that you know what databases are in SQL Server, let’s...
... option, you are informing SQLServer that
ã The column will have a value generated by SQL Server.
ã There will be a start point (seed).
ã An increment value is given, informing SQLServer by how ... nonclustered index, SQLServer
finds the relevant row in the index. If the information you want doesn’t form part of the data in the
index, SQLServer will then use the information in the index ... Page 130 Monday, June 30 , 2008 3: 01 PM
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smallint
The smallint data type, or small integer, holds small integer numbers in the range of 32 ,768 through
to 32 ,767....
... clause, SQLServer may be
able to avoid performing an internal sort, resulting in improved query performance.
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DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\ MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER
\MSSQL\Backup\ApressFinancial.bak' ... straightforward tool, and it’s
not as powerful as some other tools on the market for building database diagrams, it is perfect for
SQL Server.
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... process that removes entries within the SQLServer system tables to inform SQLServer that
this database is no longer within this instance of SQLServer and therefore cannot be used. It is as simple ... 9 :33 AM
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Figure 7- 23. Selecting the serverfor the maintenance plan
Figure 7-24. Defining the schedule
Dewson_958-7C07.fm Page 2 23 ... been built, it will be stored within SQL Server, but will have been built as a
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) job. This is a technique within SQLServerfor running several
tasks in sequence...
... SQL Server, when SQLServer can perform the
task quickly and simply for you? Network traffic would be reduced and accuracy ensured as the column
information would be completed directly by SQL ... affected)
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ã FROM table_name | view_name: Required—we have to inform SQLServer where the information
is coming ... suffix of the collation name—
SQL_ Latin1_General_Cp 437 _CS_AS, for instance—then the first SELECT query would generate an error. The col-
lation sequence forSQLServer was chosen in Chapter 1...
... 12.
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Figure 8- 43. Updating multiple columns
8. Now let’s move on to updating columns in which the data types don’t match. SQL ... Figure 9-7; SQLServer places the square brackets around the name
for us because of the space.
Figure 9-7. Alias with identifier
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... '24 March 2008 3: 00 PM'
SET @SecondTime = '24 March 2008 3: 33PM'
SELECT DATEDIFF(ms,@FirstTime,@SecondTime)
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any value.
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CHAPTER 11
T -SQL Essentials
Now that you know how to build and work with SQLServer objects, and insert, update, ... there are large volumes of data, though.
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3. The same result would be derived using a data type that is...