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In high-traffic environments, optimizing SQL Server queries is crucial to maintaining swift and reliable database performance. Slow queries can become a bottleneck, causing frustration for users ...
Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.
SQL was so attractive in the later 1980s that many database vendors essentially stapled a SQL query processor on top of their CODASYL databases, ... using SQL Server syntax.
SQL Server 2016 provides new support for working with JSON objects. In a previous column, I discussed how to generate JSON from SQL queries. This column looks at the reverse process: accepting JSON ...
When working with databases other than Microsoft's SQL Server, check the manual to see if it supports SELECT INTO. It might support the syntax or it might use another way of accomplishing the same ...
I ran this query, and lo! My table in SQL Server was updated: There are some interesting things to note here though. First, for each row in my Excel table, and each time an UPDATE statement was run, ...