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 ...

Data platforms make decisions all day. An SQL query keeps the rows over a threshold, matches a keyword, and joins two tables ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

When you execute an SQL query, the results do not return quickly.You may have had no issues during development, but the ...

The theme for this time is SQL "execution plans."Execution plans are one of the technologies you absolutely must understand when considering database performance.However, this content might also be a ...

BigQuery ObjectRef is now GA. Combine unstructured data with Gemini to build powerful multimodal analytics and conversational agents using SQL.