SQL Questions

Recursive query can be create in SQL using stored procedure but you can also use CTE (Common table expression). It might be also worth asking about performance as CTE is not always very fast.

A default is a value which will be used by a column, if no value is supplied to that column while inserting data.

Yes, IDENTITY and TIMESTAMP columns are free from the bounds of default.

They get stored in System Catalog Views sys.server_principals and sys.sql_logins.

In a nutshell, a temp table is a temporary storage structure. It means you can use a temp table to store data temporarily so you can manipulate and change it before it reaches its destination format.

In table_user.gender column change ‘male to female’ and ‘female to male’ in one SQL statement.

UPDATE table_user

SET gender =

CASE gender

WHEN ‘male’ THEN ‘female’

WHEN ‘female’ THEN ‘male’

ELSE gender

END

Every Analysis server has a repository to store metadata for the objects like cubes, data sources etc. It’s by default stored in a MS Access database which can be also migrated to a SQL Server database.

Delete command removes the rows from a table based on the condition that we provide with a WHERE clause. Truncate will actually remove all the rows from a table and there will be no data in the table after we run the truncate command.

TRUNCATE:

- TRUNCATE is faster and uses fewer system and transaction log resources than DELETE.

- TRUNCATE removes the data by deallocating the data pages used to store the table's data, and only the page deallocations are recorded in the transaction log.

- TRUNCATE removes all rows from a table, but the table structure, its columns, constraints, indexes and so on, remains. The counter used by an identity for new rows is reset to the seed for the column.

- You cannot use TRUNCATE TABLE on a table referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint. Because TRUNCATE TABLE is not logged, it cannot activate a trigger.

- TRUNCATE cannot be rolled back.

- TRUNCATE is DDL Command.

- TRUNCATE Resets identity of the table

DELETE:

- DELETE removes rows one at a time and records an entry in the transaction log for each deleted row.

- If you want to retain the identity counter, use DELETE instead. If you want to remove table definition and its data, use the DROP TABLE statement.

- DELETE Can be used with or without a WHERE clause

- DELETE Activates Triggers.

- DELETE can be rolled back.

- DELETE is DML Command.

- DELETE does not reset identity of the table.

Note: DELETE and TRUNCATE both can be rolled back when surrounded by TRANSACTION if the current session is not closed. If TRUNCATE is written in Query Editor surrounded by TRANSACTION and if session is closed, it can not be rolled back but DELETE can be rolled back.

It is a way to convert the original text of the stored procedure into encrypted form. The stored procedure gets obfuscated and the output of this is not visible to

CREATE PROCEDURE Abc

WITH ENCRYPTION

AS

<< SELECT statement>>

GO

SQL Server agent plays an important role in the day-to-day tasks of a database administrator (DBA). Its purpose is to ease the implementation of tasks for the DBA, with its full- function scheduling engine, which allows you to schedule your own jobs and scripts.