[Video] Fundamentals of Stored Procedures at SQLBits
Anybody can write a stored procedure with a little help from Google. This session is about how to […]
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Introduction This article shows how common table expressions (CTE) in SQL Server are naturally suited for navigating trees, […]
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When your query has a scalar user-defined function in it, SQL Server may not parallelize it and may […]
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Introduction NoSqlOnSql is a strict syntactical superset of SQL; it adds NoSQL document-oriented capabilities to the SQL language. […]