Update: Fortnite downtime is over and the Star Wars mini season is live, after a five hour server maintenance as predicted. Original story: It’s finally time – Fortnite downtime has finally ...

In November 2024, we announced the next major release of SQL Server: SQL Server 2025. SQL Server 2025, now in private preview, includes capabilities to build AI applications including vector and AI ...

Examine the optimal data migration strategy in light of the SQL Server system’s capacity to withstand overhead and outages. Use the most efficient method measured in terms of downtime to migrate the ...

The authentication operation will be triggered when Arrow Flight Server ... Flight SQL uses less than one-tenth of the memory to read 600 million rows of Decimal Column. Compare the performance of ...

Splitting a string by a delimiter in SQL Server involves breaking a single text string into ... BEGIN DECLARE @start_position INT, @ending_position INT SELECT @start_position = 1, @ending_position = ...

or 10/1/2015), which we can achieve using SQL Server’s built-in “convert” function with formatting style 103. In the example below, we can see that the provided date string is in the wrong format. It ...

SQL is a widely-used programming language for computer databases in business. Frequently, software developers need to combine different kinds of data, such as integer and character fields, into a ...

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 ...

These tools can convert SQL Server to MySQL including its forks such as MariaDB and Percona, handling both on-premises and cloud databases. Also, the software provides accurate processing of data and ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with ...