OK, I’ll admit it. I’m not a DBA, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overseen databases and their performance. I was (and probably still am) the guy who installed a Microsoft SQL database by hitting Next ...

If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code. You are probably familiar ...

SQL is a widely-used programming language for computer databases in business. Frequently, software developers need to combine different kinds of data, such as integer and character fields, into a ...

Have a table (SQL Server 2008) that the user wants to record a fixed 8 character string in. At first glance, a CHAR seems the obvious selection since this value (an 8 character ID, two alpha ...

In SQL server char will allocate the full size specified even if not filled.<BR>varchar will allocate the smallest space using single byte language characters.<BR>nvarchar is the same as varchar but ...

Shelley Doll finishes her coverage of SQL data types with an overview of datetime and interval data types. Learn more about the basic syntax of these standard SQL types. Datetimes and intervals are ...