Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...

Here are two more in the works to think about: dynamic data masking and row-level security. In the case of these two features, they’ll be released first to the cloud platform (Azure SQL Database) and, ...