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 ...

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 ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

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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 ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

SQL stands for ‘Structured Query Language’. This is basically a declarative language used for storing and retrieving data in a database. If you’ve heard of SQL, it’s probably in the context of MySQL, ...

Devart, a leading developer of database management software, is offering dbForge 2025.3, the latest update to its unified ecosystem of professional database tools-delivering expanded connectivity, ...

Using Access to build a front end for SQL Server Your email has been sent What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your ...