Dreamdata's Steffan Hedebrandt on why LinkedIn drives 30% of SQL pipeline, the 272-day buying journey and a 7.7x lift in ROI ...

RS: Emp_WS.Save_Emps - Save a list of new employees to database, returning list of ids with Julian dates; logging errors to err$ table RG: Emp_WS.Get_Dept_Emps - For given department id, return ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a database management system that is mainly used store and retrieve requested data across a network. It’s purpose more closely aligns with software developers and not so much ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

SQL, the Structured Query Language, remains one of the most widely used programming languages, coming in fourth in Stack Overflow’s research for 2023. Just over half (51.52%) of professional ...

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Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Cardinality estimation (CE) is a process used by the query optimizer to estimate the number of rows returned by a query or sub-part of a query. These estimates ...

There are a large number of utilities for generating test data. But in some cases, you may wish to generate this data manually. I would like to share my own experience in this area and hope that the ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Query Store is one of the most powerful database-scoped features in SQL Server for troubleshooting performance and improving the stability of your database ...