Rajendra Gupta

Rajendra Gupta
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READPAST in the update statements

Explore the SQL query table hint READPAST

November 14, 2020 by

SQL Server creates an optimized execution plan based on the available inputs such as statistics, indexes. By default, it chooses a cost-optimized execution plan and executes the query. Sometimes, we use SQL queries table hints to override the default mechanism. Developers popularly use WITH (NOLOCK) query hint in a Select statement to avoid blocking issues.

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first column as row label

Develop your extensions for Azure Data Studio

October 20, 2020 by

Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a popular cross-platform (Windows, Linux) tool for database professionals. It provides various useful features such as T-SQL editor, Visualizations, insights, Peek definitions, Notebooks, Git integration, extensions and more. Extensions add new functionality in the ADS. Microsoft provides several useful extensions. We have already covered few useful extensions in the Azure Data Studio category on SQLShack.

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