SERVERPROPERTY is an inbuilt function which gives you information about the server instance. This is Part 10 of 10 Part T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2016 for Developers and DBAs. Click here to read it from the...
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Ashish MehtaFORMATMESSAGE Statement T-SQL Enhancement in SQL Server 2016
FORMATMESSAGE statement is enhanced in SQL Server 2016 to accept a msg_string argument. In the previous versions this function was used to form a message from text located in sys.messages This is Part 9 of 10 Part T-SQL...
STRING_SPLIT Function and STRING_ESCAPE Function in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 introduces two new string functions namely STRING_SPLIT and STRING_ESCAPE. This is Part 8 of 10 Part T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2016 for Developers and DBAs. Click here to read it from the...
COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS T-SQL Enhancement in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 introduces two new system functions namely COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS. This is Part 7 of 10 Part T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2016 for Developers and DBAs. Click here to read it from the beginning…...
ALTER DATABASE SET AUTOGROW_ALL_FILES T-SQL Enhancement in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 introduces two new options to ALTER DATABASE statement which can be used to modify database files namely AUTOGROW_SINGLE_FILE and AUTOGROW_ALL_FILES. In the earlier versions of SQL Server...
ALTER DATABASE SET AUTOGROW_SINGLE_FILE T-SQL Enhancement in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 introduces two new options to ALTER DATABASE statement which can be used to modify database files namely AUTOGROW_SINGLE_FILE and AUTOGROW_ALL_FILES. In the earlier versions of SQL Server...
MAXDOP for DBCC CHECKDB, DBCC CHECKTABLE and DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP T-SQL Enhancement in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 brings MAXDOP settings, for DBCC CHECKDB, DBCC CHECKTABLE and DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP command. Database Administrators can leverage MAXDOP settings to above mentioned DBCC commands to achieve Max Degree of...
ALTER TABLE WITH (ONLINE=ON | OFF) T-SQL Enhancement in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 introduces an interesting T-SQL enhancement to improve performance and reduce downtime ALTER TABLE WITH (ONLINE = ON | OFF). This statement will help you alter data types, change column/table collation...
DROP IF EXISTS T-SQL Enhancement in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 introduces a new DROP IF EXISTS statement to DROP objects such as tables, columns, indexes, stored procedures, schemas, triggers and user-defined functions. DROP IF EXISTS statement can be used to check...
TRUNCATE TABLE WITH PARTITIONS T-SQL Enhancement in SQL Server 2016
It is a well known fact that TRUNCATE TABLE is faster than DELETE statement. TRUNCATE TABLE uses lesser system resources and transaction log file when compared to a DELETE statement. This is Part 2 of 10 Part T-SQL...
T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2016 for Developers and DBAs
SQL Server 2016 introduces many new T-SQL features for Developers and Database Administrators. Let us take a look at some of the new T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server 2016 along with relevant examples. This is Part 1 of...
