Discover how to enhance SQL Server query performance in databases with high traffic using proven optimization techniques for DBAs.

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.

Removing the NOT ENFORCED clause from the primary key constraint definition as it is not a valid syntax in SQL Server. Correcting the object name to match the actual Lakehouse name used in the ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...

As of the November update of Power Query, it’s now possible to write your own SQL query when you’re moving data out of SQL Server into Excel using Power Query. So I got thinking… if you can write your ...

We've reverted the sql generation changes introduced in alpha.11, so that even with an older version of SQL Server 2016, queries should work. However subscriptions still require OPENJSON WITH support.

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of.

A few months ago a new option was added to the Sql.Database and Sql.Databases functions in Power Query in Power BI and Excel which allows Power Query queries that combine data from different SQL ...

Query Store is one of the most powerful database-scoped features in SQL Server for troubleshooting performance and improving the stability of your database.