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.

Apache Phoenix: Its developers call it a “SQL skin for HBase” — a way to query HBase with SQL-like commands via an embeddable JDBC driver built for high performance and read/write operations.

Learn how to use the SQL subselect statement and handle ... Data Queries—covers database terminology and the four basic query types. SQL Basics: SELECT statement options—covers the SELECT ...

SQL Server 2016 provides new support for working with JSON objects. In a previous column, I discussed how to generate JSON from SQL queries. This column looks at the reverse process: accepting JSON ...

2. Author SQL statements & clauses Once you understand the structure and building blocks of a database, it’s time to learn to extract the information you need using SQL queries. You’ll study a ...

Using Creative mode, we asked Microsoft Copilot for the code required to create a table in SQL named Employee that included four columns: EMP_ID, Name, Salary, Age. The AI provided this code ...