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How to Build a Query String in T-SQL

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...
Ars Technica

Powershell. SQL Query. How to determine if a query returns no results?

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 minutes ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Generating .NET POCO Classes for SQL Query Results

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 ...
Redmond Magazine

A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1

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 ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Create a Table From Query Results in Microsoft SQL

If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL, but ...