It’s more than a productivity boost, it’s a smarter way to write, understand, and optimize queries, whether you're a seasoned developer or just getting started with SQL.” — Oleksii Honcharov, Head of ...

"SQL Performance Tuning" will help the experienced SQL programmer make his or her code sing in terms of efficiency of code and optimization of data retrieval.

These books cover everything from beginner SQL queries to advanced database architecture.Perfect for developers, data ...

Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

In my last column (published in the February e-edition and the March print edition of DBTA), I reviewed the overall coding landscape for SQL Server with special focus on LINQ to SQL, a new technology ...

The programming language in most demand, according to the data analysed by Coding Dojo, is Java. Widely used in Android mobile apps, desktop applications, smart TVs and elsewhere, the Java ...

From a T-SQL perspective, the SchemaOnly option forces the SQLDataReader to precede the command with a SET FMTONLY ON statement. Listing 1 shows the Visual Basic ADO.NET source code to obtain a data ...

T-SQL code or is performed repetitively, stored procedures can be faster than batches of T-SQL code. During creation, stored procedures are parsed and optimized, and you can use an in-memory ...