If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results. This method won't work in SQL Server, but Microsoft's Trans ...

It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us. SQL Server lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table. For example, suppose in Access you ...

It is also useful if you are running SQL statements from an SQL application in another SQL-based database. The second form uses a LIKE clause to create a table that has the same column names and ...

That being the case, you’ll need a couple additional columns of datetime2 data type, the VALIDFROM and VALIDTO columns, which tells SQL Server which snapshot of the temporal table to use when querying ...

In SQL Server 2014 there were a number of restrictions on memory-optimized tables: you couldn't alter their structure after they were created; many SQL operators weren't supported (Outer Joins, ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals.

In SQL Server 2014, Microsoft is introducing the In-Memory OLTP database engine which essentially performs the entire I/O operation set against selected tables straight from memory.

SQL Server will take care of updating the datetime columns (which you can call whatever you want) and generating the history table. You can, if you wish, explicitly create your own history table, ...