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Cursor related statements
This book excerpt illustrates cursor statements, including the open statement, fetch statement, @@fetch_status, close statement and the deallocate statement for T-SQL cursors. Tutorial
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Special data types-Part 1
In book excerpt, special data types are defined, including: timestamp, uniqueidentifier, and cursor and xml data types, a major new feature in SQL Server 2005. User defined data types are also explained, which can be defined in Transact-SQL or .NET. Tutorial
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Transact SQL cursors
T-SQL cursors are used to repeat custom processing for each row of the cursor. The following excerpt outlines how to process a cursor for Transact-SQL Server and gives an example. Tutorial
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Date, time and number data types in SQL Server
In this book excerpt on basic T-SQL programming constructs, date and time, integer numbers, approximate numbers, exact numbers, monetary and binary data types are defined and examples given. Tutorial
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Unconditional and scheduled execution
Unconditional execution (the GoTo Statement) in T-SQL forces the server to continue the execution from a label within a stored procedure or batch. Scheduled execution (the WaitFor Statement) allows the developer to schedule a time for the remaining s... Tutorial
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Character string data types
There are four different character data types that store character strings: char, varchar, varchar(max), and text. There are also four character data types for storing unicode data: nchar, nvarchar, nvarchar(max) and ntext. This book excerpt on T-SQL... Tutorial
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T-SQL Learning Guide
Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is no stranger to the SQL Server developer or DBA, but that's no excuse not to become more familiar. Improve your T-SQL skills with these T-SQL overviews, best practices and stored procedures. Learning Guide
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Visual Studio debug windows
Visual Studio provides you with many informative debug windows, which you can review in this T-SQL stored procedure debugging feature. Feature
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How to run the stored procedure
By stepping into a stored procedure, you are essentially telling Visual Studio to start running the procedure line by line. Feature
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Where to start debugging the stored procedure
Learn how to prepare to debug a stored procedure from Visual Studio 2005. Feature