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T-SQL Programming Greg Larsen in T-SQL Programming SQL Subquery in SELECT: Examples & Syntax Guide Learn to embed subqueries inside a SELECT statement in SQL Server. Covers scalar subqueries, correlated subqueries, derived tables, and how... 26 June 2023 15 min read
SQL Server Ben Johnston in SQL Server SQL Server DDM Security Risks: Side Channel Attacks and Partial Unmasking SQL Server Dynamic Data Masking can be bypassed: learn how side channel attacks use range queries to infer masked values,... 14 June 2023 31 min read
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T-SQL Programming Itzik Ben-Gan in T-SQL Programming T-SQL Gap-Filling: Filling Missing Dates with LAG, IGNORE NULLS, and Range Matching Three T-SQL approaches for filling gaps in a time series with last-known values (LOCF imputation): TOP-based lookup, IGNORE NULLS (SQL... 29 May 2023 19 min read
SQL Server Ben Johnston in SQL Server SQL Server Dynamic Data Masking: Introduction and Use Cases (Part 1) SQL Server Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) obfuscates column data for unauthorized users without changing the stored data. Part 1 introduces... 26 May 2023 13 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Changing log growth strategy in SQL Server 2022 When I first saw a bullet item stating SQL Server 2022 would support instant file initialization for log file growth,... 15 May 2023 6 min read
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T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Ordered Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2022: Usage & Limits Learn how to use the ORDER clause with columnstore indexes in SQL Server 2022. Covers automatic data ordering, rowgroup elimination... 07 April 2023 18 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming GENERATE_SERIES in SQL Server 2022: Syntax, Examples, and Performance vs Numbers Tables GENERATE_SERIES is the new built-in function in SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Database for producing a set of values... 30 March 2023 13 min read
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T-SQL Programming Greg Larsen in T-SQL Programming Paging Data in T-SQL Sometimes when working with very large sets of data, you may not want to return all of the data at... 20 March 2023 10 min read
T-SQL Programming Louis Davidson in T-SQL Programming Optional Code in T-SQL Scripts using SQLCMD When you are writing T-SQL scripts to save away, for example one to create a new database, there are often... 06 March 2023 6 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming 40 Common Stored Procedure Problems in SQL Server Review 40 real stored procedure problems in SQL Server: naming conventions, error handling, NOCOUNT, temp table usage, sargability, schema binding,... 23 February 2023 22 min read
Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server Using TOP clause in a SELECT statement There might be a time when you might want to return just a few rows of a result set, instead... 06 February 2023 11 min read
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