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 ...
Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...
I'm using a EF Core 6 DbContext transaction to create/update entities on a SQL Server temporal table. The data I'm processing (array of items) has a key (Year-Sequential, like: 2023-001, 2023-002, etc ...
In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...
Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. SQL Server 2022 introduces a handful of new members to the growing Intelligent Query Processing (IQP) family. These additions range from expanding and ...
Type the XML data as it is stored in the database The XML schema collection is a metadata entity like a table in the database. You can create, modify, and drop them. Schemas specified in a CREATE XML ...
The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...
P values indicate how incompatible the observed data may be with a null hypothesis; “P<0.05” implies that a treatment effect or exposure association larger than that observed would occur less than 5% ...