In SQL Server, data types define the kind of data that can be stored in a column. For example, integers are stored using the INT data type, while strings may use VARCHAR or NVARCHAR.

This post adds one more useful detail: how to preserve the original data types of the columns in your query when using this technique with SQL Server-related sources. Consider the DimDate table in the ...

These primarily check the type of changes made in the database row. The new audit tables are used by the SQL DBA after going through the SQL Server Change Data Capture function to track the logged ...

SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP introduces two new widely advertised kinds of database objects: memory-optimized tables for efficient data access, and natively compiled stored procedures for efficient ...

SQL Server ships with a built-in T-SQL Collector Type that lets you collect data based on an custom T-SQL statement. However, it doesn't let you collect data in any fomat: you are limited to the data ...

We would like to suport unicode, and we read that since sql server 2019 and azure db it's possible with -UTF8 collations (default in azure). If we configure EF6 with nvarchar datatype (the default) we ...