Elements of the SQL Server Update Statement
Learn how to use the UPDATE statement, along with a few things to be aware of when changing data.
2025-04-11
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Learn how to use the UPDATE statement, along with a few things to be aware of when changing data.
2025-04-11
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Here you will learn about the key differences between the binary and SQL/Windows collations. You will see that even with all sensitivity flags enabled, SQL/Windows collation cannot behave the same way as the binary collations.
2024-03-15
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tl;dr The title says it all. Prologue One of the keys to my personal learning is that, very early in my database career, I taught myself how to make lot’s of rows of Random Constrained Data in a comparatively short time. With the help of a few good folks over time, the method has been […]
2023-09-18
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The need for performance tuning your SQL Server workloads has never been more critical. As workloads are moved into cloud services, their efficiency has a direct impact on the recurring bills. A workload that consumes more resources than necessary costs more to host in the cloud and affects the bottom line for your organization.
2023-04-07
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Learn the basics of the ROUND() function in this article.
2022-12-02
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This article shows how you can query your database files to get metadata about them and use that to get the reads, writes, and other IO statistics.
2022-11-18
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Motivation At some point in the carrer, we have come across the problem of hard-coded values in SELECT or WHERE clauses. And we all agree that these hardcoded values must be parametrised. This bad habit usually backfires when we need to troubleshoot a query. These hardcoded values are usually a business role baked in the […]
2022-10-18 (first published: 2022-09-02)
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Learn about the T-SQL function, AVG(), and see how it is used in a few different cases.
2022-07-01
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You can do essential monitoring of SQL Server instances and databases with a FREE toolkit!
2022-01-28
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Popular and addictive game of Wordle is now written in Transact SQL script. With this script, you can now play this game on Microsoft SQL Server, using your favourite editor - SSMS, ADS, VS Code, and enjoy playing the game during free time, or whilst waiting for the other SQL query to complete.
2022-01-19
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By Steve Jones
During a demo of Redgate Monitor Enterprise to a customer, they asked about how...
By Steve Jones
SQL Bits 2025 was amazing, as always. It’s been my favorite conference to attend,...
By Rohit Garg
As data becomes the backbone of modern business, understanding how to manage and analyze...
Hi, Is it possible to upgrade from sql server 2008 to sql server 2022,...
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When does Microsoft recommend using a heap as a table structure (no clustered index)?
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