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System Catalog vs Information Schema

When looking at SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), which one is better and why? Are there cases where we should use one over the other? I can’t tell the difference between them. Answer INFORMATION_SCHEMA is there for compatibility, it doesn’t expose all the information about objects on the insta…

Fetching Database Name with Space

Thanks for looking into my post. I am trying to run a query across all the database in SQL Server but the cursor is not fetching if the database contains space and the database is online. Code Error Answer Delimit Identify your object’s name. In normal terms that would be wrapping it with brackets ([]),…

Compare records in same table using self join

I am looking to get Permanent employee who has joining date greater than manager. This is what I tried till now, but I get zero records. I am expecting ouptut as Epmoyee with Id 9 as it has joining year(2019) greater than both the managers(2017 and 2015) Answer The join condition on id is the problem; this is…

How to select and join field with max date?

I have two tables joined on RECID and AAATRANSPORTORDERRECID : AAATRANSPORTTABLE AAALTLCHANGEREQUEST I need to select the record shown from AAATRANSPORTTABLE and join the AAALTLCHANGEVALUE value for the most recent CREATEDDATETIME from AAALTLCHANGEREQUEST. My query is as below: It produces these results: My d…