At its core, SQL is used to access and manipulate database information. For example, businesses may use SQL to modify, add to, remove or otherwise organize data stored in private databases.

Both PostgreSQL and SQL Server support some of the busiest transaction processing workloads you can imagine, and it's tough to compare database performance between disparate workloads.

SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features that were implemented in SQL Server 2017, and expands them to new areas of the database engine. Let's take a deeper dive into some ...

What made SQL more successful was the advent of the relational database. First designed by IBM computer scientist E. F. Codd in 1970, relational databases organize data into rows and columns so it ...

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m not a DBA, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overseen databases and their performance. I was (and probably still am) the guy who installed a Microsoft SQL database by hitting Next ...

Yugabyte, the distributed SQL database expert, is unveiling extended vector search functionality and PostgreSQL compatibility for YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) used in many enterprise-level companies. It provides a secure and scalable environment for storing, managing, and retrieving ...

We needed to pull data out of an SQL database, and the query we needed to pull out data was a complex query with multiple table joins, complex filter criteria, and sophisticated WHERE clauses.