Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

How to Build a Query String in T-SQL. Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. ... You can use SQL to create, modify, search, and display database information.

Execute SQL tasks run stored procedures or SQL queries from SSIS packages. A task executes any SQL statements that have been passed to it in sequential order. It provides you with a handy way to ...

The outward face of SQL Server 2005 is SQL Server Management Studio, a tool that rolls in all the applications in SQL Server 2000, including Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer.

After a change in title due to another company’s copyright on the word SEQUEL, Structured Query Language (SQL) was taken up by database companies like Oracle alongside their new-fangled ...

Demonstrate capability to query data from multiple tables using SQL JOINS. Create and modify database table and index structures. Maintain table data integrity through constraints. Understand how to ...

One of the interesting new features in SQL Server 2008 is Change Data Capture. ... If you need to know the column data involved in an insert, update or delete statement then CDC is for you.