Understand the effects of NULLs on inner and outer JOINs Your email has been sent SQL Server developers must understand two things: the difference between inner and outer JOINs and the effect of NULLs ...

In earlier versions of SQL Server, after selecting a join algorithm, SQL Server had to process it even if a better alternative might be available. In SQL Server 2017, the query optimizer can now sense ...

I've done this sort of thing many a time in Access, but SQL Server gives me errors when I try...<P>We have a table for company employees:<P>Employees<BR> * EmpID (key)<BR> * EmpFirstName<BR> * ...

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of. SQL Server 2016 provides ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...