A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to ...

Most programs that work with databases, however, are not written in SQL directly. Instead, they build their SQL queries as strings of text and send those strings to the database to process.

SQL CE, and Firebird. By using Dapper in your applications, you can simplify data access while ensuring high performance. In this article, we’ll examine how to work with a SQLite database using ...

For many years, developers who wanted to work with JSON had the option ... of executing the calculation to the database. Like any powerful language, SQL has its critics. For example, one common ...

The end goal of SSMS is to bring support for SQL projects to SSMS. This process is not complete, as the SDK-style database projects require work to be fully supported in SSMS. Copilot, which is ...

Microsoft's early embrace of advanced AI in its dev tooling continues apace with the new public preview of SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the company's analytics/data platform. Fabric is a ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools ...