Should That Be One Update Statement or Multiple?
Let’s say we have a couple of update statements we need to run every 15 minutes in the Stack Overflow database, and we’ve built indexes to support them:
2024-11-20
Articles
The SQLskills Black Friday Super Sale!
Starting at 4pm PST on Thursday, November 28th, SQLskills will be offering our lowest prices ever for our signature Blackbelt bundle with more than 158 hours of top-quality training.
2024-11-20 (first published: 2024-11-06)
How to Develop Custom T-SQL Code Snippets in Azure Data Studio
Learn about code snippets and Azure Data Studio.
2024-11-18
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Microsoft SQL announcements at PASS Data Community Summit 2024
Read a summary of the data platform announcements from Microsoft at the PASS Data Community Summit 2024 last week.
2024-11-18
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Explore Pandas in Python to Analyze and Manipulate Tabular Data
Learn how to use Pandas an open-source library for analyzing and manipulating tabular data in Python along with several examples.
2024-11-18
SQL Server 2022 Build List
This is a list of the builds for SQL Server 2022. There are other build lists available here. A list of all the builds that I can find and install on my Build VM. If you find a build not listed here, please let the webmaster know (webmaster at sqlservercentral.com). All builds are listed in reverse […]
2024-11-15 (first published: 2022-09-01)
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The Right and Wrong of T-SQL DML TRIGGERs (SQL Spackle)
Triggers in T-SQL have many uses. There are right and wrong ways to write triggers. To learn the difference, read on...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2015-03-17)
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Making Temporal Databases Work, Part 3: Saving Data
In part three of this series, Boris Novikov looks at how data is saved and modified in a temporal database and what kind of integrity constraints are needed for temporal tables. If you haven’t seen parts one and two, don’t worry! Links are provided in the article, and we recommend checking them out first.
2024-11-15
Ingesting Data From REST API endpoints: Data Engineering with Fabric
In this article on Fabric we will examine how to get data from a REST API.
2024-11-13
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Relationships with Microsoft Fabric GraphQL API
Learn how to join tables together when using the GraphQL API with Microsoft Fabric in this step-by-step article.
2024-11-13
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
Mmoexp CFB 25 Coins: Highlight How Accountability Leads to Success
2. Highlight How Accountability Leads to Success Recruits are looking for programs where they...
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers