Done is Better than Good
Getting something done is important, but so is the quality level. Steve has a few thoughts today.
Getting something done is important, but so is the quality level. Steve has a few thoughts today.
This article presents a way to discover those tables that are unused over a period of time, along with suggestions on how to get rid of these tables.
This tutorial will discuss using variables with SQL DECLARE along with various examples.
Learn about filtered indexes in SQL Server, how they work, and how they can help improve performance.
Today Steve tasks data modeling and wonders how many people still build and maintain models.
A list of all builds for SQL Server 2016. Updated with CU2 for SP2 and CU10 for SP1.
This is a list of the builds for SQL Server 2022. There are other build lists available here. A list of all the builds that I can find and install on my Build VM. If you find a build not listed here, please let the webmaster know (webmaster at sqlservercentral.com). All builds are listed in reverse […]
By John
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025, bringing big improvements to its main database engine....
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about what certain items in Redgate Monitor mean. They have...
By Brian Kelley
Pass or fail, act on your certification test results.
I have table: t1 in schema1 with 19 billion records. I have another table...
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What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)See possible answers