SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

To execute SQL commands and queries, add a semicolon (;) when the query is complete and then press . Here we create a new database, connect to it, connect back to our default database, and finally ...

This is likely because when I first learned it was with command-line tools, but even so, I think command-line database tools often are the best way to interact with a database manually. Two of the ...

Note that the command includes a tacit "Yes" to Microsoft's End-User Licensing Agreement and that the server is running on the common SQL Server TCP port 1433. The password must meet Microsoft's ...

Many people are confused by various JOIN operations supported by SQL. Learn to master the SQL command line with this crash course in JOIN syntax.