You can control how a value is sent and received from the database. For that purpose, you can add at the end of the column definition a type adapter. Example: Imagine you want to store an RGB colour ...

My post earlier this year on enabling query folding when using SQL queries as a data source in Power Query provoked a lot of interest. This post adds one more useful detail: how to preserve the ...

Recently I’ve been asked by colleagues with various different types of performance problems why Power BI is generating SQL in a particular way, and the answer has been the presence of nullable columns ...

Query the list of CITY names starting with vowels (i.e., a, e, i, o, or u) from STATION. Your result cannot contain duplicates. * Zero or more instances of string preceding it + One or more instances ...

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had a utility ...

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client. SQL Server ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...