Code Focused. Deleting all Data from a SQL Server Database (Part 2) 04/27/2011; In part one of this article, I described a scenario in which I needed to empty all the data from a copy of a large ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

Learn how to master the SELECT statement to form truly useful data queries. This article explains functions, clauses, and keywords that will make your life a lot easier.

In doing this wrapping and replacing of columns and tables, many pages worth of SQL can be strung out to create an extraordinarily intricate single state­ment whenever desired. However, this practice ...

Creating a copy of the database and then deleting all the data gives me a much higher confidence that I have an empty database structurally identical to the original. As promised in part one, I ...