The Human Consent Registry is a free public utility tool people can use to create a record of how their name and likeness can ...

The error “Column is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause” appears when a query uses ...

Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. After spending 15 years as a SQL Server DBA, I've witnessed numerous technological evolutions, ...

Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. I still remember the morning our CTO walked into our weekly team meeting and dropped the bomb: ...

Do NOT use the obsolete jTDS driver. (Validated with mssql-jdbc 13.4.0 against SQL Server 2025 17.0.4055 -> Exasol 2025.1.11.) See the connection examples at the end of this file. truncation', ...

The primary key column is often set to auto-increment when constructing a SQL Server database. To achieve this, the IDENTITY property is enabled on the primary key column. The starting value and ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

When two companies merge, a top-to-bottom assessment of settings for Active Directory forests with trusts can eliminate headaches and create a more secure environment In the past, security decisions ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...