Category: T-SQL Statements

• A Join A Day – UPDATE & DELETE

  

  2012-12-29 - A Join A Day, General, Series, T-SQL Statements

  Do you need to pull in data from several tables to update just one? This post shows how a join can be incorporated in an update or delete statement.

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• A Join A Day – Except

  

  2012-12-17 - A Join A Day, Fundamentals, General, Series, T-SQL Statements

  The EXCEPT keyword can be used to calculate the set theoretical difference of two sets of rows. You can use EXCEPT every time you want to return rows from one table that are not in another table. Under the covers SQL Server uses a Left Anti Semi Join too fulfill an EXCEPT requests.

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• A Join A Day – Intersect

  

  2012-12-16 - A Join A Day, Fundamentals, General, Series, T-SQL Statements

  INTERSECT is a keyword that takes two query expressions and calculates the set theoretical intersection from the two row sets. Under the covers SQL Server often uses the Left Semi Join operator for INTERSECT queries. One peculiarity is, that duplicate rows will be removed from the final result.

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• A Join A Day – The Outer Apply

  

  2012-12-09 - A Join A Day, Fundamentals, General, Series, T-SQL Statements

  This is day nine of the A Join A Day series and we are going to look at the outer apply statement. We will discover the differences to the cross apply and the similarities to the left outer join. Read on to get all the details.

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• A Join A Day – The Cross Apply

  

  2012-12-08 - A Join A Day, Fundamentals, General, Series, T-SQL Statements

  The Cross Apply is the topic of this eighth day of the A Join A Day series. The Cross Apply is a unique T-SQL statement that allows us to join a table to a function. Read on for all the details…

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