When you use CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE, database and session settings influence and possibly override the nullability of the data type that is used in a column definition. We recommend that you ...

When you alter the attributes of a column and an index has been defined for that column, the values in the altered column continue to have the index defined for them. If you drop a column with the ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

SQL Server 2017 was released in October of 2017 right on the heels of one of my favorites releases, SQL Server 2016. In SQL Server 2016, we brought to the product a new feature called Query Store .