If you've worked with SQL Server for a while, you've probably found yourself asking: Should I use a CTE here? What about a temp table? Would a subquery be faster? Each of these techniques — Common ...

I was scrolling through YouTube and came across a video where one of my heroes, Brent Ozar (brenozar.com), showed how temporary tables and statistics can cause trouble for us developers working in SQL ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

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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 ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

Need some hands-on SQL experience before starting full-time at your first data analyst job? Don’t know where to start? You’d be pleasantly surprised to know that there are not one but five different ...

The rise of big data over the years, especially with all the social networks these days, have compelled big companies to reassess their data access and collection methods — and this is where NoSQL ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

As described in our previous article, the packer configuration contains the decryption key of the packed binary as well as its original filename, its size and the execution type (EXE or DLL). The ...