We are currently about 25% of the way through the SQL Server 70-461 exam preparation class, which has been available through Google On Air Broadcasts every Thursday at 9:00am Pacific time. To celebrate the 25% mark, and to strengthen the training we have decided to do a review session on everything that we have covered so far. Null Expressions Identity …
This week I had a chance to sit in on a great presentation provided by Sydney Ratzlaff. I learned a few things, and was able to build out my LinkedIn profile based on her help. Here are the slides from the presentation on SlideShare: LinkedIn Pro Tips & How to Build Your Personal Brand from Sydney Ratzlaff See Also: Sydney on …
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The free SQL Server Queries weekly training is being presented by Steve Stedman. The training is being presented by Aaron Buma and myself. This week we are covering two topics, first the MERGE statement will be covered by Aaron, then I will present on Recursive Queries. There MERGE statement is one of those that I was not familiar enough with when …
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A great conversation, not original, but something found on LinkedIn For employee training, see our Stedman’s SQL School.
Here is a short video that shows how to convert those ugly derived table (SubQuery) queries into a common table expression to help clean up your TSQL code. This applies to Common Table Expressions on Microsoft SQL Server, and the recording comes from my Free SQL Query Training course. Other CTE Related Posts: Writing Your First Common Table Expression …
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Next week, on Thursday Feb 26th Aaron Buma and I, as part of the Free SQL Training, will be presenting on the use of the MERGE Statement and how to do Recursive Queries. This is intended to help prepare TSQL Developers for the 70-461 certification exam. Here is the basic abstract for the presentation: This will be a free training …
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I just a added a video to YouTube titled “What is a Common Table Expression”. This video covers the extreme basics of what a CTE is on Microsoft SQL Server, and how to write that CTE in TSQL. Here is the video: It’s a very short video with the basics of what a CTE is. Take a look. Other …
The free SQL Server Queries weekly training is being presented by Steve Stedman and Aaron Buma. The name of the presentation started out as “OUTPUT Clause and Derived Tables“, however it evolved into “OUTPUT Clause Correlated Subqueries and Subquery Extensions” as we got further into it. Last week we covered some of the basics of Derived Tables or Subqueries, today we will …
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Earlier in the week I added a blog entry on using the OUTPUT Clause on INSERT Statements, today I will expand it by exploring the use of the OUTPUT clause with UPDATE statements. Generally when you do an UPDATE statement you only get a row count returned, you don’t generally get a result set showing what was changed. With the OUTPUT clause …
One of the often overlooked features of SQL Server is the OUTPUT clause, which applies to INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE statements. In this post we are going to go over the basics of using the OUTPUT clause on an INSERT statement. What the output clause does is return a result set on queries that don’t usually return a result …