Then and now, most databases use variants of a language called SQL (Structured Query Language) to manipulate their data. Databases using SQL organize data into tables built up of rows and columns.

SQL Server 2022 takes that ability a few steps further. Last year, I wrote a column on the introduction of query store hints into Azure SQL Database.

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Not so with DBAs! In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate ...

Version 1.0 of open source database reinvents SQL for the machine data era with unique combination of scalability, query versatility and ease-of-use for real-time analytics of structured and ...

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

Unlike the previous version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2000 lets you specify collations for almost any task, at virtually every level within a database — from table column to SELECT statement ...

Man – one, machine – two. OK, you win. But now you gotta run the place for the next 4 billion years. And our experience tells us it’s a messy business. Steven Price is a Kennebunkport resident.

Google has now added machine learning (ML) capabilities to its Google BigQuery, the company's petabyte (PB)-scale cloud database offering.

If they call it a NoSQL database, why would you want to run SQL queries on it? Counterintuitive as it sounds, that’s exactly the idea being explored by a company called Splice Machine.