Learn how to install and configure SQL Server Management Studio, download a SQL Server, and connect them on a Windows 11/10/Server computer..

Click the "Download" button to download the entire Feature Pack, or scroll to the bottom half of the page and locate the "Microsoft SQL Server OLE DB Provider" links.

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception.

2) Generate a dynamic SQL statement server side and execute it. 3) Execute multiple performance-optimized queries client-side and then use LINQ or similar to AND and OR the result sets as necessary.

Want faster SQL queries? Here are nine best practices for writing SQL queries that work like a charm (or at least, like they should).