There are no changes to the BCP API in OLE DB for the sparse columns or column_set features. If a table has a column_set, sparse columns are not handled as distinct columns. The values of all sparse ...

This will instruct the .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server (used by SSMS) to decrypt the encrypted columns in the query result set. See Enabling and disabling Always Encrypted for a database ...

Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

In an earlier column, I showed how to use the new SQL Server JSON support to return JSON objects directly from SQL statements, potentially slimming down the code in your Controller classes. But that ...

The SQL time column type can be used for both concepts, so we don’t have a semantic problem this time. Instead, the issue arises because of a mismatch between the SQL connector and PowerApps – the ...

SQL Server has many different ways (column types) to represent date/time values, and depending on which one is used in the database table, you may have some surprising results when trying to consume ...