Efficient use of JOIN operations in SQL Server can drastically reduce query times. The server offers various JOIN types, such as INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, and RIGHT JOIN, each serving specific purposes.

This obviously has big implications for performance. The lesson here is that if you’re going to write your own SQL query in the Query Editor, you should make sure it does all of the expensive filters ...

Now thanks to SQL Server 2005/2008, query execution and analyzing is too very much easy. We can do this using reporting services but lets take a bit more convenient way to find out how a query is ...

Put the query in a new query window in SQL Server Management Studio. Looking at the AdventureWords2012 database (available for download from CodePlex), review the uspGetEmployeeManagers stored ...

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 ...

The Whidbey version of VS.NET makes writing and deploying .NET code for SQL Server as easy as writing an ordinary .NET assembly or an ASP.NET Web application. You start by creating a SQL Server ...

When you connect to a relational database like SQL Server in Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform you have two choices about how to get the data you need: You can choose a table from the ...