In October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes of clothing and about five dozen textbooks. I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in ...

SELECT STR(12345678901234567890, 20) AS result_big1; GO -- SQL Server: 12345678901234567000 -- Babelfish : 12345678901234568000 <-- differs -- HP-2: large integer ...

For the first time in 2025, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates did not bundle fixes for exploited security vulnerabilities, but the company acknowledged one of the addressed flaws had been publicly ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The goal of Hibernate and JPA is to hide the complexity of SQL and relational databases from the ...

When working with dates and times in SQL Server, it’s common for formatting discrepancies to cause issues during query execution. To prevent errors, it’s crucial to ensure that date strings are ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

When you encounter the “Network-related or instance-specific error” in SQL Server, it usually happens when trying to connect to a database, and the connection ...

Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap — and how we could feel the fallout. When ...