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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, ...

Developers love database programming tips, tricks, and workarounds—especially those that slash development time or boost application performance. Here's a collection of such nuggets for developing SQL ...

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...