Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

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Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

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Power Query transformations can assist in splitting data into rows, based on various factors such as delimiter, text patterns, and data types.

Learn how to import, clean, and transform external data in Excel using Power Query. Simplify workflows and master data analysis today ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components.