The “Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string” error in SQL Server appears when SQL Server cannot interpret a text value as a ...

Defines a date that is combined with a time of day that is based on 24-hour clock. **datetime2** can be considered as an extension of the existing **datetime** type that has a larger date range, a ...

A Technical Project Manager with expertise in agile methodologies, project planning, quality assurance, and more. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the universal language for managing and interacting ...

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 ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

One feature of Power BI incremental refresh I’ve always been meaning to test out is the ability to create your own M queries to work with the “detect data changes” feature, and last week I finally had ...

It’s surprisingly easy to stop query folding happening in Power Query by changing the data type of a column. This is mentioned in the docs here, and it’s something several people have blogged about ...