If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

While the last two versions of SQL Server focused on improving performance by offering new features, SQL Server 2016 looks inwards towards improving existing functionality.

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1 An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the ...

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.

mcp_ohmy_sql is an open-source Text-to-SQL system developed for deployment in enterprise production. It is not about specific features as much as about integration, scale and reliability: It supports ...

See performance gains by using indexed views in SQL Server Your email has been sent A view is a saved T-SQL query in SQL Server. The view definition is stored by SQL Server so that it can be used ...

Many people are confused by various JOIN operations supported by SQL. Learn to master the SQL command line with this crash course in JOIN syntax.

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution ...