SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases.

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.

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An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception.

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For a long time, companies have been using relational databases (DB) to manage data. However, with the increasing use of ...

For the past fifty years, SQL has helped us understand, manipulate and use our data to our advantage.

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

The core value of conversational BI lies in lowering the threshold for data analysis and promoting "data democratization." Traditional BI requires users to master SQL, OLAP, and possess data thinking ...

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 ...