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Displaying Long Values in SSMS

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I write a lot of dynamic SQL and frequently encounter variables that contain many characters:
DECLARE @LongValue NVARCHAR(MAX) = CAST('' AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) +
N'SELECT
...

2018-08-07

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Blog Post

Displaying Long Values in SSMS

Watch this week's video on YouTube
I write a lot of dynamic SQL and frequently encounter variables that contain many characters:
DECLARE @LongValue NVARCHAR(MAX) = CAST('' AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) +
N'SELECT
...

2018-08-07

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Should You Use Index Hints?

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One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...

2018-07-31

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Blog Post

Should You Use Index Hints?

Watch this week's video on YouTube
One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...

2018-07-31

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