SQL Server is one of the best products to come out of Microsoft, but not every professional knows how to use it effectively. For example, some might find it difficult to create a stored procedure but ...

specifies a dynamic, DBMS-specific SQL statement that does not select data. This argument is required and must be enclosed in parentheses. The statement is case sensitive and is passed to the DBMS ...

Data engineers who read and review SQL every day, but still run into inherited production queries that are painful to reason about. You've got a 150-line query, an INSERT ... SELECT, a MERGE, or a ...

Stored procedures can speed up your code by reducing trips to your database -- even if you only have one SQL statement to execute. Here's how to speed up your application (and how to simplify your ...