My third Pluralsight course, Working with Temporal Data in SQL Server, is published. I am really proud on the second part of the course, where I discuss optimization of temporal queries. This was a nearly impossible task for decades. First solutions appeared only lately. I present all together six solutions (and one more that is not a solution), ...

Many times, categories of concepts and things overlap. It can be hard to categorize some items in a single category. The SQL TRUNCATE TABLE statement is an example of an item that is not so easy to categorize. Is it a DDL (Data Definition Language) or DML (Data Manipulation Language) statement? There is an ongoing discussion about this topic. ...