Yes; Microsoft themselves recommend using <> over != specifically for ANSI compliance, e.g. in Microsoft Press training kit for 70-461 exam, "Querying Microsoft SQL Server", they say "As an example of when to choose the standard form, T-SQL supports two “not equal to” operators: <> and !=. The former is standard and the latter is not.
Which of these queries is the faster? NOT EXISTS: SELECT ProductID, ProductName FROM Northwind..Products p WHERE NOT EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM Northwind..[Order Details] od WHERE p.
Is it possible to use an IF clause within a WHERE clause in MS SQL? Example: WHERE IF IsNumeric(@OrderNumber) = 1 OrderNumber = @OrderNumber ELSE OrderNumber LIKE '%' + @
I have the following data in a Table PriceOrderShipped PriceOrderShippedInbound PriceOrderShippedOutbound In SQL I need to write a query which searches for a string in a table. While searching for a
SELECT * FROM table INNER JOIN otherTable ON table.ID = otherTable.FK Is there any difference between the statements in performance or otherwise? Does it differ between different SQL implementations?
@Revious INFORMATION_SCHEMA views included in SQL Server comply with the ISO standard definition for the INFORMATION_SCHEMA., sys.columns, sys.tables is Microsoft Sql Server specific.
I got the following entry in my database: images/test.jpg I want to trim the entry so I get: test So basically, I want everything after / and before . How can I solve it?
Ran into a similar issue while restoring the database using SQL server management studio and it got stuck into restoring mode. After several hours of issue tracking, the following query worked for me.
