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 need ...

While temporal data support is something that has existed in the past within other database platforms, it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven’t ...

Say we have two types of tools: hammers and wrenches. We have a list of work orders, and we want to track what tool was used for the hammering and what was used for the wrenching. The problem is that ...

A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing. Consultant, author and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry travels the world helping ...

A WPF ListBox lets you display data created and stored in a SQL table. You must query the SQL database, and you use the retrieved data set to populate the ListBox items. The SQL table can contain one ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm in the process of building a SQL clean-up script that will be removing lots of now redundant data from our Oracle DB.<BR><BR>It seems that for tables which contain a FK pointing back to ...