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Thursday, February 23, 2012

SQL SERVER 2012 "Denali" -- Programming Enhancements


I have gathered this information through different blogs and demos

1.         Sequences: Sequences have been requested by the SQL Server community for years, and it's included in this release. Sequence is a user defined object that generates a sequence of a number. Here is an example using Sequence.
/****** Create Sequence Object ******/
CREATE SEQUENCE MySequence
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1;
/****** Create Temp Table ******/
DECLARE @Person TABLE
(
ID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
FullName nvarchar(100) NOT NULL
);
/****** Insert Data ******/
INSERT @Person (ID, FullName)
VALUES (NEXT VALUE FOR MySequence, 'Shamas Saeed'),
(NEXT VALUE FOR MySequence, 'Qamar Saeed');

/****** Display results ******/
SELECT * FROM @Person;
The results would look like this:
ID FullName
1 Shamas Saeed
2 Qamar Saeed
2.         New Paging through Query: Paging results in SQL Server has been discussed for years. The Order By option in the SQL SELECT statement has been enhanced in SQL Server 2012. Using a combination of OFFSET and FETCH along with ORDER BY gives you control of paging through a result set. Using this technique can really help performance by bring back only the results you want to show to your users when they are needed. Following is the example of paging though query. The OFFSET command provides a starting point for the SELECT statement in terms of paging, and the FETCH command provides how many records to return at a time.
SELECT *
FROM TableSample
ORDER BY ID
OFFSET 10 ROWS
FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY;
3.         Full Text Search: The Full Text Search in SQL Server 2012 has been enhanced by allowing you to search and index data stored in extended properties or metadata. Consider a PDF document that has "properties" filled in like Name, Type, Folder path, Size, Date Created, etc. In the newest release of SQL Server, this data could be indexes and searched along with the data in the document itself. The data does have to be exposed to work, but its possible now.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Sqeuence and paging Queries are awesome, Can u tell me if we can select return columns from a stored proc like the way we do from table / function.
i.e.

Select colA,colB from MyStoredProc

Shamas DBA said...

No, We cannot use store procedure as select statement but there are other ways to return values from a store proc.

1- Using Select statement to return data set.
2- Using OUTPUT parameter to return variable values.

There is a way you can do this...

Shamas DBA said...

look at this example

First I have created 2 procedures and then result of first procedure returns into another table and return that data into second procedure.



if exists (select * from sys.objects where name like 'up_returnDataSet')
drop procedure up_returnDataSet
go
if exists (select * from sys.objects where name like 'up_returnDataSet2')
drop procedure up_returnDataSet2
go


Create procedure up_returnDataSet
as
begin
Declare @vTable Table(ID int,Value varchar(10))

Insert into @vTable values (1,'Shamas'),(2,'Shams'),(3,'Qamar'),(4,'Usman'),(5,'Atif'),(6,'Salman')

Select * from @vTable

end

go

Create procedure up_returnDataSet2
as
begin
Declare @vTableInsert Table(ID int,Value varchar(10))

Insert into @vTableInsert
exec up_returnDataSet

select * from @vTableInsert
end

exec up_returnDataSet
exec up_returnDataSet2


this might help.

Shamas DBA said...

http://shamas-saeed.blogspot.com/2012/02/calling-procedure-result-set-out-put-in.html


this might also help