A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or ...

Creating SQL Stored Procedures via SQL Server is easier than you might have originally thought, so let us explain what to do.

When you use index views in the right situations, they can dramatically improve the performance of SQL Server queries. Tim Chapman explains why performance testing is the best way to tell if ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

PROC SQL allows you to specify the ORDER BY clause in the CREATE VIEW statement. Every time a view is accessed, its data are sorted and displayed as specified by the ORDER BY clause. This sorting on ...

In other words, my Get and Delete/Post methods look very different, anyway. It makes sense, therefore, to create views in SQL Server that correspond to the DTOs I will return from my back-end server.

Identify Blocked SQL Processes Quickly: Listing 1: SQL SERVER: Create the Database Block-Tracing Utility The database utility dba_BlockTracer extracts data about the running processes by inspecting ...