SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies ...

SQL Server guru Denny Cherry uses 'horrible' stories about SQL Server disasters in a positive way: to teach others what not to do -- and what to do in case they do things they shouldn't have done.

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new Azure SQL Database free offering. This offering provides users a 32 GB General Purpose, serverless Azure SQL database with 100,000 vCore second ...

Snowflake is adding generative AI-powered SQL functions to help data analysts and their organizations analyze unstructured data with SQL. These new AISQL functions will be part of Snowflake’s ...

Sytze Harkema explains how to save and retrieve relational SQL data into a NoSQL key-value store as implemented by FoundationDB, an open source, scalable, fault tolerant and ACID database.

Note: Since the node name may differ depending on your version (s) of SQL Server, the simplest way to find it is to open regedit and search for SQLDataRoot. Using T-SQL, there's an extended stored ...