Put the query in a new query window in SQL Server Management Studio. Looking at the AdventureWords2012 database (available for download from CodePlex), review the uspGetEmployeeManagers stored ...

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

Figure 1. Get started by running SQL's version of PowerShell. Let's start off with looking at the SQL Server services running on a given machine. Use the Get-Service cmdlet to find out about services ...

When your SQL query is ready, you can run the query immediately or you can add a title, change its options, limit its output, and so on, to make the report look better. See Viewing the SQL Code, ...

Given a fairly simple table which holds only 2 columns I care about.Taco_Sales (Taco_Type varchar(20), Taco_Date datetime)I want to find the min and max Taco_date for a given taco type. Both Taco ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

Well, I have a database that would be interesting to have running totals on; nothing big, about 3,500,000 records, and I killed the query after leaving it running for 13 hours.