and they give developers less incentive to learn SQL and understand what their queries are doing. When a developer needs to hand-write a query to get the best possible performance, they don’t ...

The upgrade to the new CE in SQL Server 2014 was a benefit to the vast majority of queries. However, a very small subset of queries had a significant impact on query performance. Microsoft ...

However, if a query is planned, the optimizer recognizes that it would be silly to plan it again. This is a good thing because, in our applications, the same queries do keep coming around again and ...

Such is the case with SQL queries. They seem so innocent, and so useful. But dangers lurk within every space-separated keyword. Consider a basic query crafted using ordinary C# string concatenation: / ...