"SQL Performance Tuning" will help the experienced SQL programmer make his or her code sing in terms of efficiency of code and optimization of data retrieval.

SQL, the structured query language, is a programming language for communicating with databases. Variations on SQL are used by some of the most popular database tools in the world, including some ...

I added a table to the Chinook database that contained a column of each of the SQL Server data types to ensure that each would be generated correctly. Listing 3 shows the T-SQL script to create the ...

Prophecy 3.0’s unique technology enables business data users to visually build data pipelines that Prophecy instantly turns into SQL code (as dbt Core™ projects that are 100% open-source).

In my last column (published in the February e-edition and the March print edition of DBTA), I reviewed the overall coding landscape for SQL Server with special focus on LINQ to SQL, a new technology ...

SQL history. Before there was SQL, databases had tight, navigational programming interfaces, and typically were designed around a network schema called the CODASYL data model. CODASYL (Committee ...