My post earlier this year on enabling query folding when using SQL queries as a data source in Power Query provoked a lot of interest. This post adds one more useful detail: how to preserve the ...

SQL queries and data are essential for database administration, but they also pose security risks if not handled properly. SQL injection, data leakage, unauthorized access, ...

I was super-excited when, a few days ago, the long-awaited integration of Power Query into Microsoft Flow was announced.I was then gutted when work commitments meant I couldn’t blog about it right ...

Drag the OLE DB Source component from the SSIS Toolbox on to the Data Flow Designer.. Configure the component to extract data from the Employee table in the TestDB database. Select (local).TestDB for ...

The Data Mining Query task runs prediction queries based on data mining models built in [!INCLUDEssASnoversion]. The prediction query creates a prediction for new data by using mining models. For ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

I'm trying to take an XML document and dump the contents into a table. Not as XML using the SQL Server 2005 XML datatype, but as the parsed data values into a table with a column for each element ...

However, SQL Server 2016 also fully supports the rowset-to-JSON query scenario when you write a regular T-SQL query and then map results to JSON objects via the FOR JSON clause. For more information ...