User options and connection flags

Every user session in SQL Server comes with a number of “flags”, or settings, that you can alter to modify the way SQL Server behaves in different aspects. Some are fairly straight-forward, which others are old legacy options or even completely deprecated and have no actual use.

Identifiers in T-SQL

From time to time, you’re going to be confronted with a SQL Server solution where you need manage column or table names that contain non-alphanumeric characters, like for instance space or percent, or even reserved keywords like “table” or “select”.