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

The widely used Structured Query Language is gaining new life as a standard data access method for Big Data.

Apache Parquet, on the other hand, is a columnar storage file format that offers efficient data compression and encoding schemes. Its design is optimized for complex nested data structures and is ...

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.

We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server. The data won't be modified or ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.