Get the time in Hour:Minute Format, or just the date, from a DATETIME with CONVERT styles 108 and 101, or with the TIME and DATE types in SQL Server 2008.
Monitoring With What You Already Have
Build useful SQL Server alerts with Agent, operators, failed-job notifications, and a review routine that verifies the whole delivery path.
Date Conversion Styles: Disambiguate Day and Month
Date conversion styles define how incoming text becomes a date. Compare month-first and day-first interpretations without guessing. Keep invalid dates separate from missing input.
XQuery string-length: Count Content Without Markup
XQuery string-length counts the selected element string value. Seven bounded cases separate content from markup, empty elements from missing elements, and missing XML from existing documents.
Full-Text Search Basics
Full-text search basics explains catalogs, full-text indexes, CONTAINS, and LIKE so SQL Server searches match the question and the data.
How to Patch SQL Server Without a Bad Morning
Before you patch SQL Server, check backups, plan replica and cluster sequencing, record builds, and prepare a tested recovery path.
Calculating the Cost of a Slow Query
Cost of a slow query includes frequency, CPU, reads, waits, and user time; learn to turn SQL Server measurements into a practical tuning priority.