Whether you’re just getting in to programming or you’ve avoided learning SQL, it’s something every developer faces eventually. You may not be responsible for building and maintaining a ...

We divided it into two sections: SQL Server Basics covers common tasks you may be called upon to perform; Transact-SQL Reference introduces the fundamentals of T-SQL code and query building to ...

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1 An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

Code Focused Generating .NET POCO Classes for SQL Query Results A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...

Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

If those 2-3 other client apps will query data from SQL, you need to account for those end-users also with valid CALs or a core license depending on which best fits cost wise.

Microsoft has revealed some details about what's next for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Customers should expect ...

Joey on SQL Server Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 2: PSP Optimization Reduce workload times with this handy feature that can benefit every database pro.