One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

Oh, and furthermore, this inefficiency didn't start having such dire effects until the table it was querying went from a couple thousand, to a couple million records.

I'm trying to figure out how to use the SQL where/in syntax with a paramterized query. For instance let's say I'd like to run the following query:<BR><BR>select * from customers where custid in (1,2,3 ...

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