Email addresses are very prevalent in IT systems and often used as a natural primary key. The repetitive storage of email addresses in multiple tables is a bad design choice. Following is a design pattern to store email addresses in a single table and to retrieve them efficiently.
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A brief introduction to the sparse option and script to help decide when to use it
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Data Compression and Snapshot Isolation don't play well together, you may not see a performance benefit
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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