Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Put the structure of your data, a few sample rows, or both into a single text string. Craft a “prompt” to the AI with that information plus your natural language question.

How to add a new column in Power Query Our goal is to combine the t-shirt sales by client into a single cell for each client. Doing so entails grouping by the clients.

Prior to SQL Server 2017, query processing was a monolithic process. The SQL Server query optimizer would first construct a query plan for a batch of T-SQL code, a stored procedure, or function and ...