I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...

Joey on SQL Server Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 2: PSP Optimization Reduce workload times with this handy feature that can benefit every database pro.

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's goal for the Query Store was to help DBAs facilitate upgrading to newer releases of SQL Server by providing persistent performance data to could be analyzed over time.

The Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer is part of the client tools that come with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. It's designed to analyze the SQL queries that you or a program makes that ...