How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can ...

In this example, Transact-SQL will create a new table with all columns from the rows in "old_table" in which the last name starts with "Ja." ...

It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us. SQL Server lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table. For example, suppose in Access you ...

The third form of the CREATE TABLE statement stores the results of any query-expression in a table and does not display the output. It is a convenient way to create temporary tables that are subsets ...

DICTIONARY tables are often large. Therefore, if you are looking for specific information, use a WHERE clause to retrieve a subset of the rows in a DICTIONARY table. In the following example, only the ...

SQL Server throws a wobbly when one tries to declare/create the same-named temporary table more than once in the same procedure - I guess the query analyser assumes that all temp table creations ...

Now that the setup process is completed, the FileTable can be used in various ways. First, I'll show an example of how a FileTable can manage files directly on the file system. Then I'll show how it ...