Although tables in SQL databases typically contain massive amounts of data, they’re not always in a format that can be used by data analysts. The data records in these tables need to be filtered ...

The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say.

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Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had a utility ...

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of. SQL Server 2016 provides ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...