Spring is not only the season of daffodils, lighter clothing and many joyful bank holidays, but for many homeowners hoping to move, it is also the perfect time to put your house on the market. ‘Spring ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. However, if you want to customize the way a field maps to a database column, you can decorate a ...

A primary key is a unique identifier for each record in a database table, making sure no two rows have the same primary key value. This keeps the data clean and easy to work with. In a relational ...

The primary key column is often set to auto-increment when constructing a SQL Server database. To achieve this, the IDENTITY property is enabled on the primary key column. The starting value and ...

A (somewhat opinionated) list of SQL tips and tricks that I've picked up over the years. There's so much you can do with SQL but I've focused on what I find most useful in my day-to-day work as a data ...

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.

Update 2018-06-06: Please not that in the step involving reviewing the schema for the Response step, be sure to check that each column’s type is specified as string, integer, boolean, etc. or the flow ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...