Ok, I'm trying to write a query in a stored procedure in SQL Server 2000. Because some of the parts of the query vary based on certain situations I construct a string that contains the query and ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception.