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.

To leverage the Query Store for predictive analysis, you must first enable it on your SQL Server database. This is done using the ALTER DATABASE command followed by setting the QUERY_STORE = ON ...

Like it or not, Relational Databases store most of the world's structured data and Structured Query Language (SQL) is by far the most frequent way of retrieving the data. According to the most recent ...

How to Create a Table From Query Results in Microsoft SQL. If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results.

Good God, that looks so much easier than screwing around with the system.Data classes. Most of my databases are built with SQL Express. I have the free copy of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS ...

However, SQL Server 2016 also fully supports the rowset-to-JSON query scenario when you write a regular T-SQL query and then map results to JSON objects via the FOR JSON clause. For more information ...

I'm working on a sort-of toy database application, and I've run across a point where it would be handy to store an arbitrary mathmatical function in a table and evaluate it in a query.<BR><BR>I ...

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.