Creative Development

An interesting approach to schema changes is a creative solution to Steve. He asks if you have other creative solutions you've seen.

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Finding Identity Columns

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Get the Most Current Row From a Detail Table

This article compares the performance of finding the most recent row in a child table for updates, looking at four possible solutions.

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Starter Metadata T-SQL Query Examples for Databases and Tables

SQL Server provides lots of information about various aspects of server and database objects and this data is referred to as metadata. Understanding what is available and how to use this metadata can greatly enhance and streamline how you can work with SQL Server.

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Paging Data in T-SQL

This article will show you how to page through a set of results using the OFFSET and FETCH options of the ORDER BY clause.