I wrote a query (with lots of help, see my painfully plentiful other threads) using a correlated subquery and it takes 5.78 seconds PER RECORD to return results. The SAME query, only I select the ...

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 ...

T-SQL (Transact-SQL) is a set of programming extensions from Sybase and Microsoft that add several features to the Structured Query Language (SQL), including ...

It's been far too long since I did any real db work, and even then it was simple stuff. Now I feel in way over my head and I don't remember the basic vocabulary to help find the answers I need.