The 'Structured' part of SQL denotes the fact that queries can be nested inside each other in such a way that, wherever you can use a table, you can use a table expression. Such derived tables can provide powerful magic, to which is added CTEs and Lateral Tables.
2014-02-11
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SQL Server MVP Steve Jones will be hosting a free seminar in San Jose on Friday March 7 2014. Join fellow database professionals to learn best practices and practical tips for SQL Server version control, continuous integration and deployment.
2014-02-11
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2014-02-10
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Not long ago, a crack team of SQL Server experts was flamed for a crime against database normalization they didn't commit. Today, Joe Deebeeay had a problem, no one else could help, so he found these exiled experts. Together Joe and the DBA-Team get to the bottom of high disk I/O.
2014-02-10
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In this piece, Josh follows up on his earlier article about smoothing DBA/Developer interactions, this time from the side of the developers.
2014-02-07
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There are several networking issues that can prevent the user from reaching or connecting to the SQL Server database. Learn how to test your SQL Server connectivity with PowerShell.
2014-02-07
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What are your options for sending a variable number of choices in a parameter to a stored procedure? Alex Grinberg looks at three techniques you can use.
2014-02-06
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Window Functions in SQL greatly simplify a whole range of financial and statistical aggregations on sets of data. Because there is less SQL on the page, it is easy to assume that the performance is better too: but is it? Dwain gets out the test harness to investigate.
2014-02-06
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When should you use a SQL CLR Aggregate? Lots of people have struggled with this one, but David Poole found a use, and has some interesting performance data analysis as well.
2014-02-05 (first published: 2010-12-29)
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The code in this tip will demonstrate how to continue SQL Server Log Shipping after a file has been added to the primary SQL Server database.
2014-02-05
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Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
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In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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