In the above demo, I included all the tables in my Azure SQL Database (AdventureWorksLT) and asked Copilot to build a query to show me sales by sales rep and product color.

SQL is the leading language for developing and querying databases, but it has a few quirks.In my last article, I shared 7 SQL mistakes to avoid.Now, let’s take a look at 9 best practices for ...

How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. ... How to Create a Table From Query Results in Microsoft SQL.

How to Create a Table From Query Results in Microsoft SQL. If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results.

See Listing 4 for the script to list the triggers on all tables. Gets the list of foreign key constraints. Multiple field foreign key constraints are combined into a single row. Any extended ...

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 SQL Server 2014 debuted, you didn't have a lot of options for how to fix the queries that slowed down under the new CE -- you had the big hammer of not using it, or hinting queries to try to ...

In Azure SQL Database you can also set a HISTORY_RETENTION_PERIOD (and should be able to do it in SQL Server 2017) to control how far back in time your history will extend. Converting Existing Table ...

SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table while working in Access. Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us.