Nov 8, 2013 · <> operator means not equal to in MS SQL. It compares two expressions (a comparison operator). When you compare nonnull expressions, the result is TRUE if the left operand is not equal to the right operand; otherwise, the result is FALSE. If either or both operands are NULL, see the topic SET ANSI_NULLS (Transact-SQL). See here : Not Equal To

Apr 6, 2009 · 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.

Jul 30, 2012 · The @CustID means it's a parameter that you will supply a value for later in your code. This is the best way of protecting against SQL injection. Create your query using parameters, rather than concatenating strings and variables. The database engine puts the parameter value into where the placeholder is, and there is zero chance for SQL injection.

Apr 29, 2014 · sql server: + (infix operator), concat ( vararg function ) Edit: Now Azure SQL also supports ANSI SQL ...

Sep 15, 2008 · The CASE expression cannot be used to control the flow of execution of Transact-SQL statements, statement blocks, user-defined functions, and stored procedures. If your needs can not be satisfied by these limitations (for example, a need to return differently shaped result sets dependent on some condition) then SQL Server does also have a ...

May 18, 2007 · In order to filter the student records that have a 10 grade in Math, we can use the EXISTS SQL operator, like this: SELECT id, first_name, last_name FROM student WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM student_grade WHERE student_grade.student_id = student.id AND student_grade.grade = 10 AND student_grade.class_name = 'Math' ) ORDER BY id

May 17, 2011 · sql> Oracle SQL allows us to ignore the case of database object names provided we either create them with names all in upper case, or without using double quotes. If we use mixed case or lower case in the script and wrapped the identifiers in double quotes we are condemned to using double quotes and the precise case whenever we refer to the ...

When I perform SELECT * FROM table I got results like below: 1 item1 data1 2 item1 data2 3 item2 data3 4 item3 data4 As you can see, there are dup records from column2 (item1 are dupped). So how

Check the not null condition and empty string in SQL command is use 'is null / not null' and '!='. please try this sample pattern script: SELECT * FROM [Employee] WHERE EMail is not null -- not null check and Email != '' -- not empty check

To ASSIGN variables using a SQL select the best practice is as shown below->DECLARE co_id INT ; ->DECLARE sname VARCHAR(10) ; ->SELECT course_id INTO co_id FROM course_details ; ->SELECT student_name INTO sname FROM course_details;