Variable Scope in SQL Server
The way variable scoping works in SQL Server has been well documented on MSDN, but I have seen related issues...
2013-01-18
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SQLWise
A really simple Multiprocessing Python Example
Purpose and introduction A Python program will not be able to take advantage of more than one core or more...
2012-12-21
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Playing with Cython
Intro Recently, I came over Cython and started experimenting with it. After some basic testing, I found several things of...
2012-11-23
1,186 reads
Class and instance variables in Python 2.7
The differences and interactions between class variables and instance variables are well described in the Python 2.x documentation, but they...
2012-10-06
2,346 reads
Some Jargon from the SQL Server World
Not long ago I wrote about how to write well about SQL Server, and one major point was that jargon...
2012-09-04
1,124 reads
The effects of an SSD on SQL Server Performance
I. Introduction A little while ago, my wonderful wife Renee got a Solid State Drive (SSD) for me. Being a...
2012-07-29
5,685 reads
New articles posted.
My article Plotting SQL Server Data for Data Visualization is up on MSSQLTips now and discusses using PyQt and Matplotlib...
2012-07-21
818 reads
Writing About SQL Server
I. Introduction I recently submitted my entry for a writing competition as part of my continuing education. While I was...
2012-07-09
1,424 reads
Blogs
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Adding and Dropping Columns II
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers
