There are times as a developer that you will want to be able to delete all the data from a database as efficiently as possible. Unfortunately, doing so may not be as easy as it seems. There are times ...

Any table they reference cannot be dropped without first dropping all of the stored procedures that reference it. Unfortunately normal stored procedures don’t support this option in SQL Server 2014.

Your upcoming session at SQL Server Live!/Live! 360 talks about the "best and worst practices for indexing tables within your SQL Server 2000-2016 database." ...

If screaming speed in data access is the most important thing in your life, SQL Server's durable in-memory, memory-optimized tables are your answer. They were good in SQL Server 2014 and they're even ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals. Here ...

Microsoft's SQL Server has a handy command that rebuilds all indexes in a table. Oracle users typically rebuild each index in a table individually.

Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, Sybase, Informix — programmers use the same language to retrieve data from all of these systems. SQL queries are written in an English-like syntax.