Find out how Strands hints work and how you can get them to make it easier to solve the puzzle without any outside help. We ...

GPT-6 Luna and Sol one week in: where to run them, what devs built, real cost numbers, and where they fell short.

The purpose of this repo is to collect and catalog SQL snippets that are helpful when working with SQL on the Benchling lab informatics platform using the Insights dashboard or the Warehouse. I ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2025, how does it fare? Ian Stirk takes and in depth look and finds it pretty good. This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance ...

Databricks introduces full-text search indexes in Beta: create an index with a SQL statement and your substring and keyword queries are accelerated, without query hints or application changes needed.

Remember when we announced the Public Preview of DiskANN vector indexes back in November and mentioned that once you created the index, your table became read‑only ...

Applies to: SQL Server 2022 (16.x) and later versions Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance SQL database in Microsoft Fabric This article details best practices for using Query Store hints.

Applies to: SQL Server 2022 (16.x) and later versions Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance SQL database in Microsoft Fabric This article outlines how to apply query hints using the Query ...

Traverse hierarchical and graph-like structures such as org charts, file systems, and routing paths using recursive SQL. Replace procedural logic and UDFs by expressing loops with standard SQL syntax.

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...

CREATE TABLE Employee ( EmployeeID INT, EmployeeName VARCHAR(100) ); INSERT INTO Employee (EmployeeID, EmployeeName) VALUES (1, 'Alice'), (2, 'Bob'), (3, 'Charlie ...