and they give developers less incentive to learn SQL and understand what their queries are doing. When a developer needs to hand-write a query to get the best possible performance, they don’t ...

A developer doesn't have to write iterations to parse through the object list, but rather get the work done in SQL query format. Till recently, the same wasn't possible for Java developers.

Whether they use SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite, the challenges are similar. It’s too easy to write queries that perform badly, that waste system resources, or that don ...

The first, and the most important, technique for writing SQL for performance is to know the indexes. An index is like a bridge that allows the SQL query to jump directly to the data rows of interest ...

With SQLake, building a pipeline is as easy as writing a SQL query. This creates numerous benefits, including: Pipeline development cycles are shortened from months to weeks or days. SQL’s ...

On Thursday at the SQLBits conference in Hampshire, U.K., Microsoft announced the private preview of Copilot for Azure SQL Database. This new Azure service aims to help users write queries and ...

Enjoy faster SQL Follow these dos and don’ts whenever you can when writing queries or processes to improve your SQL performance, but remember to evaluate each situation individually to see which ...

Often, SQL statement problems aren’t discovered until released into the wild in production. This can cause contention between those who write the code and those tasked with supporting/responding to ...

In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft also added the ... And as a DBA or developer, you don't really need to understand it to write effective queries that perform well. However, having some education ...

In this column, I focused on the JSON-to-rowset scenario. However, SQL Server 2016 also fully supports the rowset-to-JSON query scenario when you write a regular T-SQL query and then map results to ...