Once we encounter a few problems with the SQL 2012 and we need to analyze it, what will be the first recommended step to start with? During my last post I have discussed the default trace in SQL and its benefits. SQL 2008 introduced a new option called extended events (which is also know as Xevents)...

  In one of our previous posts we saw how different set options can affect execution plans and result sets. Now let's see how to write our code in order to avoid text-to-date conversion mismatches. In this example we can see one string being converted to two different dates:   set language...

  With all the innovation that SQL 2012 bring to us in the T-SQL area we have the offset command. What is the offset command? I early version of SQL (before 2012) when we wanted to select out of a table a number of row we all have used the TOP command, the top command is selecting the number applied...