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- Should I use != or lt; gt; for not equal in T-SQL? - Stack Overflow
Yes; Microsoft themselves recommend using <> over != specifically for ANSI compliance, e g in Microsoft Press training kit for 70-461 exam, "Querying Microsoft SQL Server", they say "As an example of when to choose the standard form, T-SQL supports two “not equal to” operators: <> and != The former is standard and the latter is not
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Due to precedence of SQL statements it will be the same however, due to data types if using 100 you can still get the result rounded to 0 decimals you desire for the % where as if you put it after the division operation you would have to make sure that you cast to a data type that can handle the decimal places otherwise you will end up with
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- sql - Exclude a column using SELECT * [except columnA] FROM tableA . . .
We all know that to select all columns from a table, we can use SELECT * FROM tableA Is there a way to exclude column(s) from a table without specifying all the columns? SELECT * [except columnA]
- How do I check if a Sql server string is null or empty
Select Coalesce(listing OfferText, company OfferText, '') As Offer_Text, from tbl_directorylisting listing Inner Join tbl_companymaster company On listing company_id= company company_id But I want to get company OfferTex t if listing Offertext is an empty string, as well as if it's null What's the best performing solution?
- Truncate (not round) decimal places in SQL Server
I'm trying to determine the best way to truncate or drop extra decimal places in SQL without rounding For example: declare @value decimal(18,2) set @value = 123 456 This will automatically round @
- How can I do an UPDATE statement with JOIN in SQL Server?
This was an example, but the point is as Eric said in How can I do an UPDATE statement with JOIN in SQL Server? You need to add an UPDATE statement at first with the full address of all tables to join with, and then add the SET statement
- sql - Incorrect syntax near - Stack Overflow
SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM master sys procedures as procs left join master sys parameters as params on procs object_id = params object_id This seems totally correct, but I keep getting the following error: Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 6 Incorrect syntax near '' It works if I take out the join and only do a simple select:
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