Welcome to another exciting installment of “<STRIKE>Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy<BR><BR></STRIKE> <BR>T-SQL Theory questions that only Maxer seems to care about ...

Ok, seeing as how I couldn't find a split() function in T-SQL, and I need to import data from a Table that has this concatenated field of ID's, I wrote my own split ...

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...

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 ...