SQL Server is one of the best products to come out of Microsoft, but not every professional knows how to use it effectively. For example, some might find it difficult to create a stored procedure but ...

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 ...

As an SQL fan, I have lots of SQL statements in my application (right now most are embedded quoted within Java code, but I hope to change that). Of course, we all know the parameterization stuff: ...

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