You can leverage the BINARY_CHECKSUM() function to hash a GUID into an INT. However, keep in mind that the cardinality of a 4 byte integer is significantly lower than a...

There is a trial version of Enterprise edition. Also, starting with SQL Server 2016, the Developer edition is free. Developer edition has all the features of Enterprise edition but is...

Of course what you're struggling with here is a denormalized table design, specifically a multi-part policy code column where attributes must be parsed at runtime. I wouldn't remove the original...

The thing is, cloud databases like Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and AWS not only support but promote stored procedures.

The way I see it, usage of stored procedures actually makes the application less dependent on the database, meaning more database platform agnostic. From the ADO.NET / Java client perspective,...