Welcome to another exciting installment of “<STRIKE>Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy<BR><BR></STRIKE> <BR>T-SQL Theory questions that only Maxer seems to care about ...

Peter revisits an earlier tip on how to use stored procedures to speed up your code. This version makes your stored procedures simpler … though you may have to write a little more code to make the ...

I'm an SQL newbie trying to work out a simple database design and could use a pointer: <BR><BR>I have two tables, "Papers" and "Keywords". The idea is that a paper can have some arbitrary number of ...

Like most databases created in the last few decades, SQL Server allows developers to extend the database by creating functions. But prior to the upcoming 2019 release, SQL Server’s support for scalar ...

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

SQL Window functions are an advanced type of function in SQL. In this post, you will learn about what SQL window functions are and how they can be used or work. What are SQL window functions? SQL ...