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Categories: SQL Server (24 posts)

2020

Using SQL Server HierarchyId with Entity Framework Core

2017

Quickly test SQL Server using Docker
Quickly insert millions of rows in SQL Server in .NET

2016

SQL Server 2016 SP1 - Licensing changes
What's new in SQL Server 2016: Always encrypted
What's new in SQL Server 2016: Temporal Tables
What's new in SQL Server 2016: Live Query Statistics
What's new in SQL Server 2016: Stretch Database
What's new in SQL Server 2016: Row-Level Security
What's new in SQL Server 2016: Dynamic Data Masking
Exploring the SQL Server Database Project in Visual Studio
Deploying a SQL Server Database with Data-Tier Application (dacpac)
Comparing execution plans with SQL Server
What's new in SQL Server 2016: JSON

2015

SQL Geography, Google Maps & Geolocalisation
SQL Server - Change Data Capture (CDC)
SQL - Export the contents of a table
Recursive queries with SQL Server
Identifying missing indexes with SQL Server
SQL Server - Discovering the HierarchyId data type
Find a guid in a SQL Server database

2014

Run a SQL batch containing "GO" in C#
Test the connection to a SQL Server database
How to run a scheduled task

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