Have you ever needed WAIT or DELAY function in SQL Server?  Well, I personally have never needed it but I see lots of people asking for the same. It seems the need of the function is when developers are working with asynchronous applications or programs. When they are working with an application where user have to wait for a while for another application to complete the processing.

If you are programming language developer, it is very easy for you to make the application wait for command however, in SQL I personally have rarely used this feature.  However, I have seen lots of developers asking for this feature in SQL Server, hence I have decided to build this quick video on the same subject.

We can use WAITFOR DELAY ‘timepart‘ to create a SQL Statement to wait.

Let us see the same concept in following SQL in Sixty Seconds Video:

Related Tips in SQL in Sixty Seconds:

• Delay Function – WAITFOR clause – Delay Execution of Commands

What would you like to see in the next SQL in Sixty Seconds video?

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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