SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to pass a table data type into stored procedures and functions. The table parameter feature can greatly ease the development process because you no longer ...

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This data virtualization scenario is possible with the use of PolyBase connectors." First introduced with SQL Server 2016, PolyBase has evolved over the years and with the latest version, SQL Server ...

SQL Server will almost always only use one index per table, and the extra indexes are getting updated but never used to look up data.

While temporal data support is something that has existed in the past within other database platforms, it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven't ...

If screaming speed in data access is the most important thing in your life, SQL Server's durable in-memory, memory-optimized tables are your answer. They were good in SQL Server 2014 and they're even ...

If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results. This method won't work in SQL Server, but Microsoft's Trans ...

Using MS SQL Server, is there a way to query all of the tables in a database for a specific column name?Thanks,Pete ...

You can’t upsize Access tables that contain dates earlier than January 1, 1953. Use saved queries as opposed to SQL statements as the data sources for Access objects.