A NOT NULL Default

Manage Data Over Time with SQL Server MERGE Statement

Once data is in a table it needs to be maintained....

The Growth of T-SQL

I saw this tweet recently, where Richie Rump asked what has changed in T-SQL since the SQL Server 2012 version. A few people from Microsoft responded that there were changes in all versions, and while I think some versions have few changes, I decided to look. SQL Server 2012 introduced the window functions with the […]

The NULL Connection Setting

Case expression with NULL

More ANSI_PADDING Tables

Detecting the Variable Type

Getting started with ROUND() and Its Use Cases

Learn the basics of the ROUND() function in this article.

How to get IO statistics of SQL Server database files

This article shows how you can query your database files to get metadata about them and use that to get the reads, writes, and other IO statistics.

The Azure Database Timezone