If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results ... same as CREATE TABLE in other ...

The next release of Microsoft SQL Server, announced as SQL Server 2017, is available for download in CTP2 at http://tinyurl.com/SQLvNextLinux and offers many cool new ...

In this two-part series, I'll tell you about some improvements Microsoft is making in SQL Server 2022 to improve cardinality estimates and deal with another common query optimization concern ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

Effectively, those methods can become just thin wrappers around SQL queries. If you want to play with SQL Server’s JSON support (or the other big new feature in SQL Server 2016, temporal tables), you ...

This facilitates SQL Server Query Store's enablement of query hints for the multiple replicas, improving performance without requiring a rewrite of Transact SQL (T-SQL) code. Another feature ...

Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The extensions leverage the Extensibility Framework API to communicate and exchange data with SQL ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...