In this paper, the authors are going to discuss about the importance of query in database, how helpful was it for retrieving data from database, and it is so complex while in relational database. In ...

At the inception of relational database systems and into the 1980s, the only portable interface for applications was embedded SQL. At that time, there was no common function API such as a ...

This book aims to give you the tools and knowledge to get peak performance from your queries, how does it fare? The book, which is largely an update to the author’s Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Query ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

“SQL on everything” is the tagline associated with Presto, the query engine that was initially developed by Facebook to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data — particularly data that lay scattered ...

You don't have to give up using dynamic SQL just because you're using Entity Framework. The Entity Framework SqlQuery method will give you back the flexibility of dynamic SQL and still let you work ...

When you interview for a SQL database administrator job, the interviewer will likely ask a number of questions related to optimizing SQL databases. Be prepared to discuss the different factors that ...

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 ...

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. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...