Want faster SQL queries? Here are nine best practices for writing SQL queries that work like a charm (or at least, like they should).

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement.

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...

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GROUP BY TRUNC (DATE,'DAY'); Putting an abstract like SQL between data access and runtime execution allows for lots of optimizations to take place when the query is executed.

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.

The open source project lets developers and data pros to use its Semantic Kernel SDK to experiment and test the abilities of LLMs to generate SQL queries based on natural language expressions.