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1.what is the purpose of using alias name in sql server?
with certain example?

2.what is cursor?will u plz explain me in detail with
certain example?

Question Posted / anithababu1

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1.what is the purpose of using alias name in sql server? with certain example? 2.what is cursor?..

Answer / sujit sarkar

The main purpose of alias is we can define one object (like
table,column..) from another object which is used in sql
statement.
Suppose you need average salary and salary

then you can write

Select salary/12 as 'average salary' from salary

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1.what is the purpose of using alias name in sql server? with certain example? 2.what is cursor?..

Answer / lekhrajdeshmukh

Cursor:- Cursor is special data type of mssql server.
Cursor is mainly used for extracting the row by row data
from tables.
cursor is the only data type that can not be used in table.
Cursor is mainly used in stored procedure and when we have
to use cursor in SP need to perform the following steps:-
1)declaring a cursor.
2)Open a Cursor
3) fetching the cursor
4)close the cursor.

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1.what is the purpose of using alias name in sql server? with certain example? 2.what is cursor?..

Answer / lekhrajdeshmukh

Cursor:- Cursor is special data type of mssql server.
Cursor is mainly used for extracting the row by row data
from tables.
cursor is the only data type that can not be used in table.
Cursor is mainly used in stored procedure and when we have
to use cursor in SP need to perform the following steps:-
1)declaring a cursor.
2)Open a Cursor
4)close the cursor.

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