How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can ...

How to Restore a SQL Database From a .MDF File. Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure. SQL ...

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 ...

When querying a database table, the result set is typically consistent with the current time, that is, at the time the query is executed. However, the ANSI SQL 2011 update to the standards specified ...

9 best practices for faster SQL queries Retrieve only the columns you need Use CASE instead of UPDATE for conditional column updates Keep large-table queries to a minimum Pre-stage your data ...

It's possible that, once saved to disk, these tables could be used "as is" in my data warehouse or transactional system. Alternatively, I could also use the Table variables I've created here in a SQL ...

To find the database name you can pipe the output of Get-AzureSqlDatabasServer directly to Get-AzureSqlDatabase. You can see here that I'll be using a database name of myazuredatabase. [Click on image ...

Right-click the existing table name in the Database Window of the original database and click Copy. Close the database Window and open your new database. Under Objects, click Tables.