Since XML is now a full-fledged datatype in SQL Server, you can easily create a new table that contains a field having XML in it, using the SQL Server Management Studio (formerly, Enterprise Manager).

As you can see, it takes the name of a fruit and a sales value and updates the appropriate row in the SQL Server table. I then created a new table in Excel with some new fruit sales values: Used this ...

Cross-Database Queries In SQL Server 2014, memory-optimized tables do not support cross-database transactions. This means you cannot access another database from the same transaction or the same query ...

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 ...

SQLSTATE [42000]: [Microsoft] [ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server] [SQL Server]The ORDER BY clause is invalid in views, inline functions, derived tables, subqueries, and common table expressions, unless ...

Explore how Power Query XML functions handle null or missing values and inconsistent schema inference, a common problem causing confusion among users.

IndexOptimize runs a FOR XML query that executes in AUTO mode, which returns references to derived table aliases. #23 ...