The primary key column is often set to auto-increment when constructing a SQL Server database. To achieve this, the IDENTITY property is enabled on the primary key column. The starting value and ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

PDO is PHP Data Objects which is used to connect to any database. Benefit of using PDO is that if there is any problem in our query it has an exception class to ...

Did you include the primary key as a column in the list (should not be in the list if identity is specified) Are you certain the values being bulk inserted are not in the table? If it is not either of ...

Hospitals, medical groups and other healthcare facilities are seeking more medical specialists and fewer primary care physicians, according to an annual report tracking physician starting salaries and ...

Note: I have used MySQL and it’s storage engine InnoDB interchangeably. A couple of days ago, someone at work asked me whether inserts are faster in a table when there’s a primary key present in the ...

I recently published a tutorial describing the different available methods to store data locally in an Android app. However, due to article length constraints, I could not adequately cover creating ...

Are you ready to unlock the power of Microsoft SQL Server 2014? In this blog entry I will examine my 3 favorite new features that show how SQL Server 2014 provides high-performance OLTP, optimization ...