CONVERT date styles make date displays explicit. Keep the typed value for date logic and agree the output format with the receiving interface.
OPENJSON Default Schema: Read Its Type Codes
OPENJSON default schema exposes key, value and type. Compare all six type codes, retain JSON null, and distinguish scalar text from nested fragments.
SQL SERVER – A Quick Notes on SQL Azure
SQL Azure became Azure SQL Database. What carried over, what you give up, what you stop having to do, and how to check whether your code would move.
SQL SERVER – Copy Database from Instance to Another Instance – Copy Paste in SQL Server
How to copy database from instance to another instance with the Copy Database Wizard, and automate it through SSIS and a SQL Server Agent job.
SQL SERVER – Getting Columns Headers without Result Data – SET FMTONLY ON
SET FMTONLY ON returns only metadata, so you get column headers without result data. Here is how it works, even though DMVs will replace it in the future.
What Is SQL Azure? Azure SQL Database Explained
Understand SQL Azure and Azure SQL Database. Compare managed databases, Managed Instance and SQL Server on Azure VMs by their roles.
SQL SERVER – Running SSIS Package in Scheduled Job
How to run an SSIS package on a schedule with a SQL Server Agent job, step by step, after my earlier post on running it from the command line.