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How to handle update or insert situations

From time to time my stored procedures looks like create procedure handle_data @fk int ,@value varchar(10) as begin if exists (select * from my_table ...
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Add a new Column and define its position in a table

I have Table A with 5 columns: TableA -- Name Tel Email Address I want to add a new column (mobile) in between Tel & Email: TableA -- Name Tel Mobile Email Address If I use ALTER TABLE ...
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Which is better for long term database scalability: adding columns or having key/value store

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How to design database for tree view with an infinite depth

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Help me to better design my query so I can gain more performance

I need to find so called first entry in database for items regarding their partners. I wrote query and it is giving me correct results but it sucks with performances. I suspect that I have missed ...