Recently I encountered a problem in a stored procedure that was caused by an unexpected result from the SQL Server ISNUMERIC() function. I was using SQL Server 2008 R2 but the issue has long been ...

SQL 2016 has a number of major enhancements which will help whether or not you are implementing on-prem, in Azure or in a hybrid model. Last week Microsoft released the preview of SQL Server 2016 ...

where @searchPhraseis currently an NVARCHAR(1000) and holds the result of a function call that puts together the full search phrase. This all works fine as is but a long search string will increase ...

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One of the bottlenecks in getting value out of generative AI is the difficulty in turning natural language into SQL queries. Without detailed contextual understanding of the data, the text is ...