Queries on tables of any size aren’t free ... are software toolkits that produce programmatically generated SQL code. They allow you to use your application’s programming language and its ...

From a T-SQL perspective, the SchemaOnly option forces the SQLDataReader to precede the command with a SET FMTONLY ON statement. Listing 1 shows the Visual Basic ADO.NET source code to obtain a data ...

As an example, SQL was the first programming language to return multiple ... and segregate information into different tables, and then use the data in those tables for specific business tasks ...

In my last column (published in the February e-edition and the March print edition of DBTA), I reviewed the overall coding landscape for SQL Server with special focus on LINQ to SQL, a new technology ...

A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information ... now striving to solve with a new approach called table-augmented generation, or TAG.