Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to catch ...

You don't have to give up using dynamic SQL just because you're using Entity Framework. The Entity Framework SqlQuery method will give you back the flexibility of dynamic SQL and still let you work ...

In recent releases of SQL Server, Microsoft has delivered a great deal of feature enhancements and performance improvements. This rapid delivery has been facilitated by some development changes at ...

If you want to take a copy of one table and make a copy of it in another schema (under another username), you can use the SQL*Plus COPY command, or a simple <code>"create table foo as select * from ...

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Data developers are still learning about all the new goodies that arrived with SQL Server 2022, which is chock full of new features and enhancements such as ledger for blockchain security. Microsoft ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...