Question: What is the difference
between char, nchar, varchar, and nvarchar in SQL Server?
Answer:
nchar and nvarchar can store Unicode
characters.
char and varchar cannot store
Unicode characters.
char and nchar are fixed-length
which will reserve storage space for the number of characters you specify even if
you don't use up all that space.
varchar and nvarchar are
variable-length which will only use up spaces for the characters you store. It
will not reserve storage like char or nchar. For more details click here
Question: What is the Difference
between @@CONNECTIONS and @@MAX_CONNECTIONS in SQL Server?
Answer:
@@MAX_CONNECTIONS: @@MAX_CONNECTIONS
returns the maximum number of synchronous user connections allowed. SQL Server
allowed by default a maximum 32767 connections. To avoid many connections it can
be configured at the server level.
Note: Maximum connections (32767)
are depending on application and server hardware limits.
@@CONNECTIONS: @@CONNECTIONS returns number of connection attempts on SQL Server since SQL Server has been started.
SELECT [ConnectionAttempts] =
@@CONNECTIONS,
[MaximumAllowed] = @@MAX_CONNECTIONS
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Question: What is the difference
between DATEFIRST and @@DATEFIRST in SQL Server?
Answer: DATEFIRST keyword use to
reset the first day of the week in SQL Server and @@DATEFIRST return the current value
for the session of DATEFIRST.
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Question: What is the Difference
between a HAVING CLAUSE and a WHERE CLAUSE in SQL Server?
Answer:
WHERE clause applies to individual
rows. While the HAVING clause is like a WHERE clause, but applies only to groups as
a whole.
The WHERE clause is applied first to
the individual rows in the tables means WHERE clause is fetched data from the memory according to condition. The HAVING clause is applied to the rows in the
result set, means first data is fetched from memory to result set then apply
HAVING clause on the row of the result set.
We can use WHERE clause with the
HAVING clause, but it applies before the GROUP BY clause. We can apply a HAVING
clause only to columns that also appear in the GROUP BY clause or in an
aggregate function. For more details click here
