Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

Ok, I'm trying to write a query in a stored procedure in SQL Server 2000. Because some of the parts of the query vary based on certain situations I construct a string that contains the query and ...

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

In relational databases, VARCHAR is one of the most commonly used string data types for ... VARCHAR among various databases, with SQL Server and PostgreSQL being particularly representative, which ...

Efficient query processing is underpinned by the design and implementation of novel data structures and algorithms that address the increasing demands of modern data-intensive applications.

SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features that were implemented in SQL Server 2017, and expands them to new areas of the database engine.

Google Cloud has updated its fully managed distributed SQL database service Spanner to add graph processing capabilities, dubbed Spanner Graph. The update is expected to help developers build ...

The core function of this syntax is to inform the database that the string should be processed using Unicode encoding (such as UTF-16), primarily for matching fields of Unicode types like NVARCHAR.