select
BackupDate = convert(varchar(10),backup_start_date, 111),
SizeInGigs=floor( backup_size/1024000000)
from msdb..backupset
where
database_name = ‘DatabaseName’
and type = ‘d’
order by
backup_start_date desc

Furthermore the Backup type can be used for the following types as well , making it easier to track other types of objects:

• D = Database
• I = Differential database
• L = Log
• F = File or filegroup
• G =Differential file
• P = Partial
• Q = Differential partial

One of the key factors in SEO are good keywords, a keyword is what a users use to conduct a  search in a search engine, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. A keyword can consist of a single word, such as “cars” or an entire phrase, like “cars for sale” or even “cars for sale in Australia”.  Over time you will find out  the common keyword selections website users use to find your site and you can use these keywords to try to rank your website highly in search engine results pages.

A keyword tool I use is : https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.

Have Fun

Here is an example:
Return the relative record number and employee name from table EMPLOYEE for those employees in department 10.

SELECT RRN(EMPLOYEE), LASTNAME
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE DEPTNO = 10

There are quite a few occasions when a developer wants to extract a a date in a specific format extracted.

Having used Oracle before I would use somthing like:
select to_char(sysdate,’MM/DD/YYYY’) from dual; or
select TRUNC(DateTimeField) to get the date only.

There is no equivalent in MS SQL Server, and one always have to use CAST or CONVERT, however using the SQL script developed by the author in this article, any MS SQL developer can write one common function and write a simple command : select dbo.format_date(GETDATE(),’YYYY-MM-DD’) as Date, to retrieve a date.

Have fun and read the comments below the article if you are using SQL 2000 and SQL 2005.

This is how I then figured it was put together.

Every database has collection of one or more tables.
Tables are made up of rows and columns.
The rows contain the data and columns describe the format of the data, namely data type, for that column.

Imagine a telephone directory, information of a person’s first name, surname , address and ph number, this is how the basic table would be constructed:

Table: Phone_Directory