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Check our Tip of the Week, about JSON support in SQL Server. Tip of the Week #4 Stretch Database in SQL Server 2016 and later, allows storing historical data in the Microsoft Azure cloud. It runs in the background and provides seamless access to both local and remote data. Among other, it can be … Read more…
Check our Tip of the Week, about JSON support in SQL Server. Tip of the Week #2 With JSON support in SQL Server 2016 and later, you can format query results as JSON by adding the FOR JSON clause to a SELECT statement in SQL Server. Also, you can convert JSON data to rows … Read more…
Check our Tip of the Week, about the SQL Server Always Encrypted feature! Tip of the Week #1 With Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2016 and later, you can protect sensitive data, by encrypting sensitive data on the application side, without revealing the encryption keys to the Database Engine. To this end, through a … Read more…
Hi friends. Finally, after months of hard work, I’m proudly announcing the release of my new online course, titled: “Essential SQL Server Development Tips for SQL Developers“. In this course, via a combination of lectures, downloadable resources and over than 30 live demos/hands-on guides, you will learn many useful SQL Server database programming hands-on tips, … Read more…
Among the many great things in SQL Server, a very significant one is the fact that SQL Server provides many built-in tools and mechanisms that allow you to import and export data easily. One day while working with SQL Server, I thought to myself “why not creating an online course demonstrating all these cool built-in … Read more…
In this article, we will be discussing about the set identity_insert command in SQL Server. About the “set identity_insert” Command in SQL Server The set identity_insert command in SQL Server, as the name implies, allows the user to insert explicit values into the identity column of a table. Now, someone might wonder, “why on Earth … Read more…
What is the IDENTITY_CACHE Option in SQL Server? The IDENTITY_CACHE option, is a new database scoped configuration option in SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database. This option is set to ON by default. The concept of identity caching in SQL Server is that the Database Engine stores in cache a series of values for … Read more…
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for some time now, is not included in the SQL Server media. Instead, it is being provided as a standalone free program which can be downloaded from Microsoft’s website. The decoupling between SSMS and SQL Server Installation Media This is a good thing and I personally agree with this … Read more…
Sometimes, when working with T-SQL scripts, you might want to skip the message “(N row(s) affected)” message. This article explains how to suppress the “N Row(s) Affected” output message in SQL Server. About the N Row(s) Affected” output message in SQL Server You get this message when you execute T-SQL statements or stored procedures … Read more…
SQL Server Express Editions are a handy solution for small businesses with small databases with no special requirements about performance, high availability, encryption, etc. This article discusses about the main limitations of SQL Server Express Editions. What are the Main Limitations of SQL Server Express Editions? The Express Editions of SQL Server, even free, … Read more…
A long-awaited string function added to SQL Server 2016 (and later) the is STRING_SPLIT function. Read on to better understand this cool function and see examples of how you can use it. What does the STRING_SPLIT Function in SQL Server do? As the name implies: this function splits the given character expression using the separator … Read more…
In this article, we will be discussing about Temporal Tables in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Temporal tables in SQL Server 2016 and later as well as in Azure SQL Database is a new type of user table which was was introduced in ISO/ANSI SQL 2011. Read on to learn more temporal tables and see … Read more…
In this article, we will discussing about built-in JSON support in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. What is JSON? JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and it is widely used for data representation in the data services world. With built-In JSON support in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database, you can format query … Read more…
This article discusses the behavior of the BCP utility when extracting data from SQL Server tables to files and more specifically to CSV files. Example: Description Imagine that you have the below table: As you can see, records 2 and 3 contain null values. Then you export the table contents to CSV using BPC: bcp … Read more…
A few weeks ago I was contacted by Webucator, an online training provider that requested my permission to include one of my articles into a free video-training series called “SQL Server Solutions from the Web“. This is one of my articles on FileTables with title: “How to Import and Export Unstructured Data in SQL Server … Read more…