This strategy helps you manage interrelated tables in your database. Click the Start button and launch the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Click the Server Name menu and choose your server ...

Microsoft's SQL Server has a handy command that ... using the following code as an example:ALTER INDEX table_index_ix REBUILD PARALLEL;Use the name of the index you wish to rebuild in place ...

SQL Server 2000 made this possible with the use of OPENXML, which allows you to store data into a VARCHAR data type and pass it around. This became even easier in SQL Server 2005 with the advent ...

Memory-optimized tables are, as the name suggests, completely held in memory, eliminating disk access except as an afterthought. Eliminating the disk-based component of the table allowed the SQL ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

alias specifies an alias for table-name. sql-expression is described in sql-expression. table-name can be one of the following: the name of a PROC SQL table. the name of a SAS data view. a ...

SQL Server allows you to define cascading referential integrity constraints. These actions have a trickle-down or cascading effect, sometimes affecting several tables that were related to the ...