Creates a relational index on a table or view. Also called a rowstore index because it is either a clustered or nonclustered B-tree index. You can create a rowstore index before there is data in the ...

Adds a new column of a specified type to an existing table. The new column is not back-populated even if the table contains data. While a single column is added atomically, adding multiple columns is ...

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure Synapse Analytics SQL analytics endpoint in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric SQL database in Microsoft Fabric A ...

You can use a non-XML format file or an XML format file to skip a table column. In both cases, there are two steps: Use the bcp command-line utility to create a default format file. Modify the default ...

T-SQL (Transact-SQL) is a set of programming extensions from Sybase and Microsoft that add several features to the Structured Query Language (SQL), including ...

SQL Server Drill Down explores all aspects of Microsoft SQL Server and related applications, with a particular emphasis on issues of interest to SQL Server data professionals. Key areas of focus ...