SQL*Loader is a fast and easy way to get data into a database without writing long, complicated scripts. However, when it comes to Oracle objects that are related to each other, things can get ...

Some of these modules use what is called the SQL Management Object (SMO) which allows you to load some assemblies to be able to connect to a SQL server and then explore the server and its database and ...

Business software programs, including business objects, have a mechanism called "SQL pass-through" which improves the efficiency of data access. A database typically resides on a separate computer ...

Let me explain. Traditionally, SQL Distributed Management Objects (DMO) and SMO have been complicated enough to code that many DBAs stayed away from them. It’s not that they’re vastly more ...

There are some important compile-like actions that take place during this time, such as syntax checking, resolving references to database objects, and creating query execution plans. But my point is ...

Object Pascal is designed to be easy to use and ... TIOBE Software While the major movement on the TIOBE Index leaderboard in June has been SQL’s fall, there are smaller movements to watch ...

With SQL Server 2016, you can store JSON objects in your rows. Here’s how to work with JSON objects, including how to update them once you’ve found them. In a previous Practical .NET column I showed ...

The release of the new vCloud Air SQL database as a service, which will become available in an early access program in the fourth quarter of this year, and the new object storage services ...

We are in the midst of an unstructured data revolution – with 80% of data likely to be unstructured by 2025, according to IDC. The rise of advanced analytics and in particular artificial ...