Where To From Fundamentals?
The Database Fundamentals series is now done. We started with understanding what a database is, and then spent a little time understanding how databases store… Read More »Where To From Fundamentals?
Why You Need A Test Environment
In 2017, there’s no excuse not to have at least a testing environment, and preferably a development environment as well, in order to create and… Read More »Why You Need A Test Environment
How to write a DELETE query
My First DELETE Statement Here are the links to the previous posts in this series: My First SELECT Statement My First INSERT Statement My First… Read More »How to write a DELETE query
How to write an UPDATE query
My First UPDATE Statement Last week we covered how to put information into a table using an INSERT statement. This week we will learn how… Read More »How to write an UPDATE query
How to write an INSERT query
My First INSERT Statement Last week we covered how to get information out of a table, using a SELECT query. This week, we will discover… Read More »How to write an INSERT query
How to write a SELECT query
My First SELECT Statement Microsoft SQL Server makes it really easy for us to query tables. In SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for instance, we… Read More »How to write a SELECT query
Querying a Database
When we want to retrieve information from a database, we query the structure with language appropriate to the database. Remember right at the start of… Read More »Querying a Database
SQL Server Management Studio v17.0
Version numbers are confusing. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), the client user interface by which most DBAs access SQL Server, was decoupled from the server… Read More »SQL Server Management Studio v17.0
SQL Server 2017 Announced
By now you will have heard that the next version of SQL Server has been announced. There’s no release date yet, but Brent Ozar seems to… Read More »SQL Server 2017 Announced
Upcoming SQLSaturdays in Alberta, Canada
Taking a short break from the Database Fundamentals series of the last few weeks, I’d like to mention some upcoming PASS community events in the… Read More »Upcoming SQLSaturdays in Alberta, Canada
So, like, what is a byte?
A friend of mine in the filmmaking business, who is exceedingly bright but has never worked with SQL Server before, was reading through the first… Read More »So, like, what is a byte?
Normalization, The Sequel
If there’s one thing that SQL Server is really good at, it’s relationships. After all, a relational database management system without the relationships is nothing… Read More »Normalization, The Sequel
A First Look At Normalization
Phew! There’s a lot to take in with data types, collation, precision, scale, length, and Unicode, and we’re just getting warmed up. This week’s post is over 2,000 words long!
Over the last three weeks, we’ve gone fairly deep into data types, and now we are going to see how they come into play with normalization.
If we go back to the first post in this series, I mentioned normalization, and then apparently I forgot about it in the next two posts. What you didn’t see is that I was talking about it all along.
Fundamentals of Data Types
Last week, we discussed storing text in a database. This week we will dive deeper into data types. When storing data in our database, we… Read More »Fundamentals of Data Types
Data Types and Collation
Last week we started with a very simple definition of a database: a discrete set of information, with a specific structure and order to it.… Read More »Data Types and Collation