Replace "new_table" with the name of the table to create, and replace "old_table" with the name of the table to select from. The INTO clause behaves the same as CREATE TABLE in other SQL environments.

How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can ...

You also don't have to specify a name for your history table, but anonymous tables make me uncomfortable so I've assigned the name SalesOrderHistorical to my table. In Azure SQL Database you can also ...

Any table they reference cannot be dropped without first dropping all of the stored procedures that reference it. Unfortunately normal stored procedures don’t support this option in SQL Server 2014.

SQL Server 2016’s new Temporal Table feature makes it easy to work with data that needs to be versioned.

If you find yourself taking the same subset of data from a big table and running smaller queries against it, you can speed things up for yourself and others by persisting the subset elsewhere, and ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 8. Using FullText search query. FileTables is one of the powerful features of SQL Server 2012. It allows T-SQL access to a shared folder seamlessly and with ...

The SQL command “DROP TABLE” instructs a database server to delete an entire table of data. By adding a semicolon (“;”) into the injected code, an attacker could trick the server into ...