When you start working with SQL Server and SSIS, it won't be long before you find yourself wishing you could change bits of SQL queries dynamically. When you start working with SQL Server and SSIS, it ...

You don't have to give up on creating dynamic queries just because you're using Entity Framework. Entity SQL and ObjectQuery will let you generate queries at runtime and still let you update your data ...

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had a utility ...

SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform (which is available as a Community Technology Preview [CTP] as of this writing), includes exciting ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

This fall at Couchbase Live NYC there was a weird buzz. Ironically, it wasn’t that Couchbase 4.0 went to general availability with a new storage engine and, finally, the ability to run dynamic queries ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...