Applications that use the Jakarta Persistence API shouldn’t embed too much raw SQL in their code. However, when you need an SQL query for performance reasons or to access the database in a way that ...

scenario, you face assembling the SQL in your code or using the T-SQL exec command (or the sp_executesql system stored procedure). The difference with this scenario is where the code is executed ...

This article discusses how we can use Serilog to log structured data to a SQL Server database. To work with the code examples provided in this article, you should have Visual Studio 2019 installed ...

The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the command. Even though the SQL value is a string, SQL Server executes the string as if it is SQL code.

If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code.

The use of these attributes, shown in Listing 3, allows the subsequent Bulk Insert code to read our object and adapt to changes in the object, or allow other objects with the same custom attributes. I ...