SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. ... If you alter the schema of a temporal table (by adding a new column, for example) ...

Complexity: In SQL server’s data has to fit into tables anyhow. If your data doesn’t fit into tables, you need to design your database structure that will be complex and, again, difficult to ...

From Python to adaptive query optimization to the many cloud-focused changes (not to mention Linux!), Joey D'Antoni takes you through the major changes coming to SQL Server 2017.

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of the history of your data. Here's how to retrieve that historical data. In an earlier column, I showed how ...

The design of a database, and how to determine the relationships between tables and organization of data, are monumentally difficult tasks that can be make or break any software development project.

Database support has been upgraded to include Apache Hive 2.1, Cloudera 5.8, DB2 LUW 11.1, Hortonworks 2.5, MapR 5.1, MongoDB 3.4, MySQL 5.7, PostgreSQL 9.5, SQL Server 2016, Vertica 8, VoltDB 6.8 ...