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 ...

support multiple sql statement seperate by semicolon support select, delete, update and insert type support drop, truncate and rename command output the table and column list that the sql visited with ...

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 ...

The primary key column is often set to auto-increment when constructing a SQL Server database. To achieve this, the IDENTITY property is enabled on the primary key column. The starting value and ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Cardinality estimation (CE) is a process used by the query optimizer to estimate the number of rows returned by a query or sub-part of a query. These estimates ...

Immortalized by “Little Bobby Drop Tables” in XKCD 327, SQL injection (SQLi) was first discovered in 1998, yet continues to plague web applications across the internet. Even the OWASP Top Ten lists ...

Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server, we have made it easier for app makers to enable their users to take pictures and upload files in their apps. App makers can now use the Microsoft SQL Server connector ...

Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation. In a previous TechRepublic column about SQL Server ...