SQL remains the backbone of enterprise data access. Despite the rise of dashboards, semantic layers, and AI-driven analytics, ...
A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...
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 ...
With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client. SQL Server ...
When your SQL queries are slower than your GenAI assistant, and your only option to speed up your assistant is to speed up its slowest SQL query, then you know what it feels like to see an otherwise ...
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 ...