It's my understanding this is a "pass-through query" that passes SQL to the other server; and while useful for accessing other vendors' databases, it's best to use a "native" query between …

May 20, 2011 · SQL is a very different language compared to what you're used to. It's focused on what, not how. You tell SQL Server what results you want, and let it figure out how to produce …

I'm trying to run the following fairly simple query in SQL Server Management Studio: SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM master.sys.procedures as procs left join master.sys.parameters as params …

I just created a Instead After Trigger whose syntax is given below: Create trigger tgrInsteadTrigger on copytableto Instead of Insert as Declare @store_name varchar(30); declare @sales in...

The GO keyword is not T-SQL, but a SQL Server Management Studio artifact that allows you to separate the execution of a script file in multiple batches.I.e. when you run a T-SQL script file …

This was an example, but the point is as Eric said in How can I do an UPDATE statement with JOIN in SQL Server?. You need to add an UPDATE statement at first with the full address of …

The two queries are the same, except the second is ANSI-92 SQL syntax and the first is the older SQL syntax which didn't incorporate the join clause. They should produce exactly the same …

The only way to talk to a database running on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008, using the old style outer join syntax, is to set that database in 8.0 compatibility mode (aka SQL Server 2000).

According to "SQL Performance Tuning" by Peter Gulutzan and Trudy Pelzer, of the six or eight RDBMS brands they tested, there was no difference in optimization or performance of SQL-89 …

mysqldump -h <host> -u <username> -p <database> > dumpfile.sql dumpfile.sql By mistaken dumpfile.sql added twice in the syntax. Solution : I removed the dumpfile.sql text added to first …