When you bulk import data that contains identity values to a SQL Server instance, by default, it assigns new values. You can choose to keep the original values. [!INCLUDESQL Server Azure SQL Database ...

Describes how to work with the large-value data types. The max data types can be used for comparisons, as Transact-SQL variables, and for concatenation. They can also be used in the DISTINCT, ORDER BY ...

With SQL Server 2016, you can store JSON objects in your rows. Here’s how to work with JSON objects, including how to update them once you’ve found them. In a previous Practical .NET column I showed ...

Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2019 and SQL Server Big Data Clusters at its Ignite conference on Monday. SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...