[Database Series 07] Understand Indexes! Why the Same SQL Can Have Vastly Different Search Speeds

The theme for this session is database "indexes".Indexes are one of the technologies you absolutely must understand when ...

[Database Edition 02] Why you should learn SQL in the AI era

When people who have just started learning programming or have just entered the IT industry ask me, "What should I study ...
learn

CREATE TABLE

Creates a new table in Azure Synapse Analytics. To understand tables and how to use them, see Tables in Azure Synapse Analytics. The name of the new table. To create a local temporary table, precede ...
devblogs

Bacpac and Dacpac, the similarities and differences

When you need to move an entire database or move the objects in a database, bacpac and dacpac files often come up because of all of the tooling options to interact with them. Bacpac and dacpac files ...
learn

CREATE TABLE (SQL Graph)

Creates a new SQL graph table as either a NODE or an EDGE table. Is the name of the node or edge table. Table names must follow the rules for identifiers. table_name can be a maximum of 128 characters ...
devblogs

Refactor your database with SQL projects in VS Code

SQL database projects are a fundamental tool for keeping your database in source control, tracking changes and collaborating on quickly evolving database needs. Not to be forgotten, their superpower ...
snowflake

Getting Started with Snowflake Openflow for Change Data Capture from SQL Server

Through this guide, you will learn how to move beyond slow, nightly batch jobs and stream data in real-time from an operational database like SQL Server directly into Snowflake. Using Openflow, a ...
InfoWorld

The revenge of SQL: How a 50-year-old language reinvents itself

Prototyping is my favorite part of programming. I like building new stuff and getting things working. It’s no surprise, then, that I am a big fan of MongoDB and NoSQL in general. Don’t get me wrong: I ...
CIO

Salesforce to acquire Waii to enhance SQL analytics in Agentforce

Waii’s core technology for translating natural language questions into complex, production-ready SQL queries to be integrated into Data Cloud. Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ...
builtin

NOLOCK in SQL Server Explained

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

What is Structured Query Language (SQL)?

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them. Initially created in the 1970s, ...