Building on the DATETIMEFROMPARTS, DATETIME2FROMPARTS offers similar functionality, but yields more precise DateTime2 data type, containing fractions of a second to a specified precision. Naturally, ...

I want to design a query to compute some returns for stock data and in searching the 'SQL Server Books Online' I find a very small and not so helpful at all help section on the lead and lag functions.

The SQL query language was designed to provide programmers with a way to create, maintain and modify databases in a structured way. Using SQL, the programmer can add and remove items from databases as ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

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