SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to pass a table data type into stored procedures and functions. The table parameter feature can greatly ease the development process because you no longer ...

That being the case, you’ll need a couple additional columns of datetime2 data type, the VALIDFROM and VALIDTO columns, which tells SQL Server which snapshot of the temporal table to use when querying ...

This strategy helps you manage interrelated tables in your database. Click the Start button and launch the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Click the Server Name menu and choose your server ...

inserting and updating data into a table. To summarize the difference between the way SQL Server has traditionally taken locks and optimized locking, I'll defer to my MVP colleague Aaron Bertrand ...

Reindexing tables is an important part of good database housekeeping, because it reorganizes the indexes and restores speedy access. Microsoft's SQL Server has a handy command that rebuilds all ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...

And that's where SQL Server's In-Memory OLTP (online transaction processing) tables come in. In memory OLTP tables (I'll just call them memory-optimized tables from here on) were introduced in SQL ...

SQL Server 2022: Here’s what you need to know ... When creating a ledger table, any rows that are modified by a transaction are cryptographically hashed along with the transactions themselves.

SQL Server 2025 is also introducing a native JSON ... The use of a 64-bit VS shell means you can return the entirety of that 4 GB table, but it doesn't mean that you should. The other commonly ...