SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...

Once the SQL query reaches the SQL server, it goes through three distinct phases: parsing, binding and optimization. Put very simply: Parsing is an SQL process that checks syntax for the query.

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 ...

With SQL, the key is its middle name: query. In this context, a query is a question written in SQL syntax. For example: SELECT call_time FROM 911_calls WHERE call_date = 2020-01-01.

Improving query performance. SQL Server 2022 has more Intelligent Query Processing features to speed up existing workloads and database applications with what Khan calls “minimal implementation ...

Two such issues are text-to-SQL query and AI inference. SQL is the query language used for databases and it has been around in various forms for over 50 years.

Some databases, like SQL Server, send incoming queries through a compilation process. The database caches each query, and reuses the compiled version when a request for the identical query arrives. By ...

Copilot can also assist with fixing and explaining existing queries. It is the very early days of SQL Server 2025, but like I speculated last May, Microsoft has quietly been putting a lot of ...