Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to ...

Scott Stephens creates a package that allows you to clone most database objects with dynamic SQL.

Whenever dynamic SQL statements are prepared and not cached, total statement execution time increases. This is so because the time to prepare the dynamic statement must be added to the overall ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

Look at your dynamic SQL queries and see if they can be rewritten as two queries -- the first query applying non-dynamic criteria on a SELECT INTO to a temporary table, and the second a dynamic ...

In addition to StretchDB and AlwaysEncrypted, there are two more exciting features in the works for SQL Server 2016: dynamic data masking and row-level security. In the case of these two features, ...

The dynamic query is not actually executed against the database by the utility. Dynamic T-SQL queries built from non-validated user input should never be included in a production application.