Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

As SQL developers, we constantly strive for queries that are not just accurate, but also efficient and easy to understand. Two powerful tools in our arsenal for managing intermediate result sets are ...

If you've worked with SQL Server for a while, you've probably found yourself asking: Should I use a CTE here? What about a temp table? Would a subquery be faster? Each of these techniques — Common ...

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MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end suite of cloud-based tools for data analytics, encompassing data movement, data storage, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, and ...

Hackers have been observed trying to breach cloud environments through Microsoft SQL Servers vulnerable to SQL injection. Microsoft's security researchers report that this lateral movement technique ...

Exports the contents of a table, view, or query of a SQL Server database to an RFC 4180-compliant CSV file. This function supports the export of huge result sets by writing the contents of the CSV ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

Need some hands-on SQL experience before starting full-time at your first data analyst job? Don’t know where to start? You’d be pleasantly surprised to know that there are not one but five different ...