SQL Server and Azure SQL Database have introduced a lot of new features, not to mention checked off a lot of long-requested minor enhancements (e.g., partition-level truncation, the string_split ...

SQL is the leading language for developing and querying databases, but it has a few quirks.In my last article, I shared 7 SQL mistakes to avoid.Now, let’s take a look at 9 best practices for ...

Oracle hopes to make SQL a lingua franca for big data. By Chris Kanaracus. Jul 15, 2014 5:10 am PDT. ... “Federating query across systems involves a network cost, always,” he said.

This provides excellent performance because there are no I/O bottlenecks due to the Knowledge Grid." With 100 additional SQL functions now optimized by the Knowledge Grid in version 3.1, a 10X ...

We do not have a way for customers to directly see the telemetry being collected in SQL Azure today, but we do have a large set of certifications that govern how we collect and treat customer data ...