These functions aren't brand new, but they're in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance, and they're coming to SQL Server 2022 soon.

See the new overloaded STRING_SPLIT() function with its enable_ordinal parameter, now available in an Azure SQL Database near you.

Every time I write a post about splitting strings, I promise myself it's the last one. I need to stop making that promise. In this tip, I show how I compared my previous favorite ordered splitting function to a different technique using OPENJSON().

I show one way to run arbitrary SQL against objects in an arbitrary database – using nested dynamic SQL.

Using PowerShell calling nested dynamic SQL that drives a cursor, I show one way to collect information about queries with index hints both in the plan cache and in stored procedures, views, and other modules.

After seeing multiple people switch from STRING_SPLIT() to OPENJSON() to deal with multiple parameters, I decided to explore whether that is a change in the wrong direction.

Updated this stored procedure I wrote a decade ago to search for a string in procedure bodies, object names, job steps, and more…

I talk about using partition switching to load in fresh versions of staging tables with the least impact to current users.

I made some landing pages here, with simple and easy-to-remember URLs, presenting sets of links to very frequently-discussed topics around SQL Server.