Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

The specified columns are dropped when the table is created. Indexes are not copied to the new table. Both of these forms create a table without rows. You can use an INSERT statement to add rows. Use ...

Basically, you’ll want to enable system-versioning for the source table to a history table which you’ve decided will be temporal. That being the case, you’ll need a couple additional columns of ...

The same can't be said for other complex types such as XML, CLR and Spatial that are still on the waiting list. In this column, I focused on the JSON-to-rowset scenario. However, SQL Server 2016 also ...

If you are a SQL programmer, learning recursive SQL techniques can be a boon to your productivity. A recursive query is one that refers to itself. I think the best way to quickly grasp the concept of ...