Most of the articles that I presented so far for database development have been centered around the exact Microsoft T-SQL syntax to perform a certain operation. At the University of Rhode Island, I learnt how to program in Pascal before typing in my first ANSI SQL statement. In short, I will always be some type of developer in my heart. However, many people do not come from a computer science and math background. The SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has menus and dialog boxes to achieve many of the same…
Tag: ALTER SCHEMA
Crafting Databases – Part 1
The CREATE DATABASE SQL statement is part of the Data Definition Language (DML) defined by Codd and is used define (CREATE), modify (ALTER) or remove (DROP) databases along with there associated files. Before I talk about crafting a database, I want to classify SQL statements by four known groups. Data Definition Language (DDL) statements are SQL statements that support the definition or declaration of database objects. CREATE ALTER DROP Data Manipulation Language (DML) is a vocabulary used to add, modify, query, or remove data from a SQL Server database. SELECT…