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Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

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An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

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SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

I have a txt file with two fields. I want to update a value in a table in a SQL Server Db with a value from one of the fields in the text file. I want to do this based on a query using the second ...

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...