You can use the CASE expression in a T-SQL query in SQL Server to get the same behavior of the switch statement in the programming languages. Below is a sample Query demonstrating the implementation of the CASE expression in a query in SQL Server. CASE expression in a Query in SQL Server The query associates a Department group name to a country USA and UK…

You can use the TOP keyword and specify the number to retreive the TOP N records that the query returns. Additionally , order the records by newid() function using the ORDER BY clause to make the records random. How to select N random rows using a T-SQL Query ?

In SQL Server , you can use the OFFSET and FETCH and apply paging and retreive N records at a time. OFFSET AND FETCH clause are part of the ORDER BY clause and hence you must include the ORDER BY clause. For example , you might want to skip the first 4 records and retrieve 5 records from the query , you could use the…

You can retreive the date in the YYYY-MM-DD format in SQL Server using the CONVERT method as shown in this code snippet. How to get the date in YYYY-MM-DD format in SQL Server ?

For inserting the character break in a data of type NVARCHAR in SQL Server , you can use CHAR(13). Inserting a line break in the NVARCHAR data in SQL Server Inserting a line break in the NVARCHAR data in SQL Server

Assume that you want to write a SQL Query in SQL Server which checks if the table exists in database and want to drop it , you can use the OBJECT_ID function to determine the table existence by passing the table name and the ‘U’ as parameters. How to drop a table if it exists in SQL Server 2014 ?

Assume a scenario where you have a column in your table in SQL Server database where you want to retreive the first character of the column value. How to get the first character of a string in SQL Server ? You can use the LEFT function and specify the column name as well as the number of characters from left that you want to retreive.

There are couple of ways in which you can retreive the version of the SQL Server using T-SQL. Checking the version of a SQL Server using T-SQL 1. using @@VERSION 2. Using SERVERPROPERTY function as shown

If you are on SQL Server 2008 and higher version and want to get the date part of the datetime data in SQL Server , you can use the CONVERT method as shown in this post. How to get the date part from the date time in SQL Server ? If you want to get the current date leaving out the time from the datetime…

If you want to get the first day of the month of a input datetime variable from a SQL Query , here’s how you do it.

You can escape a single quote in your T-SQL query in SQL Server by simply doubling them. Here’s a simple example that demonstrates how the single quote ie escaped in SQL Server. How to escape a single quote in SQL Server ?

When working with the SQL Server Management Studio and trying to edit the table records , you would have noticed the context menu option “Edit Top 200 Rows”. How do you change this to display all the records for editing instead of “Edit top 200 rows” in the context menu ? There are couple of ways in which you can do it. 1. Right click…

MySQL has the function Now() which is a Datetime type field which shows the current date as well as the time. What is the equivalent of MySQL’s Now() function in SQL Server ? In SQL Server , you can use the GetDate() function to achieve the same.

If you have a scenario where you need to get all the column names of a table in SQL Server , you can query the database’s INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns table by specifying the table name. How to get all the column names of a table in SQL Server ? Here’s a query to demonstrate how to achieve this. This would display all the columns of the table…

You can use the group by and having clause in your T-SQL query to find out the duplicate records from the table. How to find the duplicate records on certain fields in SQL Server ? Lets have a look at the query that uses the group by and having clause on the Person table in the AdventureWorks database. The firstname column is used as the…