Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

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SQL Server performance is slow. Users are complaining. Your boss wants to know what's going on and what you can do to improve SQL Server performance. Where do you start? Which SQL Server query should ...

Three important tools are now integrated into SQL Server 2000’s Query Analyzer. SQL Trace lets you trace code directly from a query window, without running the Profiler.

SQL Server 2022 has more Intelligent Query Processing features to speed up existing workloads and database applications with what Khan calls “minimal implementation effort.” ...

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

You can use SQL to create, modify, search, and display database information. Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements.

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...

Want faster SQL queries? Here are nine best practices for writing SQL queries that work like a charm (or at least, like they should).