Both IS NULL and IS NOT NULL get translated to the latter form as this maps nicely to the exists query. However for scripting this ends up with double methods which is inconvenient as it's a negati ...

I've been in an argument with one of our devs that took an update statement with an inner join and made it a left join (because inner was missing some records somehow in the left table - tableB in ...

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 ...

Continued investment in the adaptive query processing feature family will help support and meet the requirements of a wide range of workload characteristics, from high-throughput transaction ...