SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems Microsoft is ...

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SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

Arthur Fuller responds to a reader who sent him a question recently asking how to display currency amounts in currency format ... database as our testbed. Consider the following SQL request ...

Microsoft's early embrace of advanced AI in its dev tooling continues apace with the new public preview of SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the company's analytics/data platform. Fabric is a ...