(Itzik Ben-Gan) The ISO/IEC 9075:2016 standard, or SQL:2016 in short, introduces support for a profound concept called Row Pattern Recognition (RPR) in SQL.

(Ron L’Esteve) As I begin to write more complex U-SQL scripts, I am interested in integrating more intricate C# code in my U-SQL scripts by using inline C# in my U-SQL jobs. Additionally, I am interested in using code-behind class files, custom functions and custom assemblies within U-SQL.

(Pinal Dave) There are many deployments where I have assisted my clients in creating Always On Availability Groups. Sometimes they come to me with special requirements, based on their infrastructure, and I always learn from them.

(John Miner) If you are new to modern day development, you might think that the words Agile and Scrum are interchangeable concepts since many project managers refer to them during team discussions. However, there is an important distinction between them.

(blobeater) Yes, a really nice new shiny feature where we have the ability to suspend and resume the encryption scan for TDE – Transparent Data Encryption which is available in SQL Server 2019.

(Kenneth Fisher) Recently (honestly it’s been a few years now) Microsoft split the lifecycle for SSMS out from the general SQL Server lifecycle.

(Pinal Dave) While trying to upgrade my SQL instance to the latest patch of SQL 2017, I encountered an issue. This has happened earlier with a few of my clients earlier but this time the cause was different.

(Adam Aspin) Building on the introduction to the SQL used by Cosmos DB in the first article in the series, here you will learn how to handle some of the more classic challenges that you may face when querying JSON documents.

(Rajendra Gupta) SQL Server FILETABLE is a next generation feature of SQL FILESTREAM. We can use it to store unstructured objects into a hierarchal directory structure.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: I was looking through Programs installed on a server with SQL Server installed and noticed Visual Studio components installed.