This is almost a duplicate of a question I asked in October: Emulate MySQL LIMIT clause in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. If you're using Microsoft SQL Server 2000, there is no good solution. Most people have to resort to capturing the result of the query in a temporary table with a IDENTITY primary key.

Nov 26, 2008 · The SQL Server equivalent to Oracle's describe command is the stored proc sp_help. The describe command gives you the information about the column names, types, length, etc. In SQL Server, let's say you want to describe a table 'mytable' in schema 'myschema' in the database 'mydb', you can do following: USE mydb; exec sp_help 'myschema.mytable';

For this foreign key, we have specified the ON DELETE CASCADE clause which tells SQL Server to delete the corresponding records in the child table when the data in the parent table is deleted. So in this example, if a product_id value is deleted from the products table, the corresponding records in the inventory table that use this product_id ...

Nov 17, 2016 · In addition to the steps above, I had to create a SQL connection user account. Windows Active Directory user accounts cannot connect through the SQL connection method. From MS SQL Server Mgmt Studio: 1. Expand Security 2. Right Click on Logins 3. Select New Login... 4. Check the radio button for SQL Server authentication. 5. Follow the ...

Run SQL Server Configuration Manager (Start | All Programs | Microsoft SQL Server 2008 | Configuration Tools). Navigate to SQL Server Services. In the right-hand pane look for SQL Server (). Is it stopped? If so, start it. Navigate to SQL Server Network Configuration (or SQL Server Network Configuration (32-bit) as appropriate) then Protocols for .

After installation you need to connect to Server Name : localhost to start using the local instance of SQL Server. Once you are connected to the local instance, right click on Databases and create a new database.

sqlalchemy, a db connection module for Python, uses SQL Authentication (database-defined user accounts) by default. If you want to use your Windows (domain or local) credentials to authenticate to ...

Server: Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'TO'. ... To rename a table ...

I have inserted records into a SQL Server database table. The table had a primary key defined and the auto increment identity seed is set to “Yes”. This is done primarily because in SQL Azure, each table has to have a primary key and identity defined.

Nov 4, 2010 · I know this post is older, but haven't seen a solution that provides the actual information, so I want to share what I use for SQL Server 2012 and above. the link below leads to the screenshot showing the information. First (so no time is wasted): SQL Server 2000: SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('LicenseType'), SERVERPROPERTY('NumLicenses') SQL Server 2005+