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.

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

How to Find All Scheduled Jobs in SQL. Microsoft's SQL Server database software includes a job scheduling system which lets you perform routine business activities such as reporting and database ...

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 ...

For example, Microsoft's SQL Server has an "Exists" keyword allowing you to easily check to see if a record exists; Oracle's SQL does not have this feature, but you can work around the shortcoming ...

Summary: IBM Db2 Warehouse includes a wide set of in-database SQL analytics that includes some basic machine learning functionality, plus in-database support for R and Python.

It's not so much a black and white, SQL vs. NoSQL situation, of course: TokBox still kept SQL databases around. That's where his team fed portions of Hadoop output for analysts to query more easily.

I had to re-start SQL Server for the changes to take effect. After the SQL Server had finished restarting, I went back to the SQL Server Configuration Manager, double-clicked TCP/IP and got the TCP ...

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Here's a quick tip. Written by Arthur Fuller, Contributor March 4, 2004 at 12:45 a.m. PT ...