When you create a view, the database management system (DBMS) stores the SQL query, not the actual data. As such, every time you query a view, the DBMS reruns the underlying SQL to present the ...

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This article is a follow-up to one I wrote in August 2017, "How To Set Up a SQL Express Database for Horizon View," in which I detailed how to configure a SQL Server Express database for use with View ...

To do it via PowerShell, you'll need your Azure SQL database server name. To get this, you can use the Get-AzureSqlDatabaseServer cmdlet. You can see here that I have a single server called ...

When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I ...

I enjoy using query types with views in order to perform advanced queries that I cannot do via EF transformations. Right now, I am forced to use arbitrary SQL statements in migrations to build my ...

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The mssql-scripter tool enables developers, DBAs, and sysadmins to generate CREATE and INSERT T-SQL scripts for database objects in SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, and Azure SQL DW from the command line.

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