Entity SQL and ObjectQuery will let you generate queries at runtime and still let you update your data through Entity Framework. There was a time, before LINQ and Entity Framework, when developers ...

Something else developers do a lot is using UPDATE ... WHERE to set the value ... of a scalar function as a column in a SELECT query. SQL Server Enterprise offers “partitioning,” which allows ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature ... without putting the query hint into the SQL code base for an application. Traditionally, you would need to modify the code.

The optimizer allows users to make use of full ANSI SQL compliant queries against Hadoop. While some basic queries will execute faster in a standard planner, Cucchi says, the Pivotal Query ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...