While most of us are familiar with the batch separator 'GO', many don't realize that you can pass a number to it to tell SQL Server to run that preceding batch a specific number of times. For example: ...

SQL Server 2008 provides a minimal set of tools — cursors and WHILE loops — to accomplish this task. I’ll take a closer look at each option and explain why it’s difficult to pinpoint which ...

In SQL Server, loops are used to execute a block of code repeatedly based on a condition. SQL Server does not have a traditional FOR loop like some other programming languages. However, you can ...

The same query cancels instantly in SQL Server Management Studio. Here is code the reproduces the issue: void Main() { var cancellationTokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource(); var blocked = ...