Using EXPLAIN/ ANALYZE: This allows one to know the execution plan of the SQL query. This may expose an inefficient join or scan by PostgreSQL and help find optimization points. DISTINCT and ORDER BY ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

One of the strengths of SQL Server is the deep built-in telemetry within the engine all accessible through T-SQL. This includes Dynamic Management Views (DMV) and Query Store. These rich, traditional ...

As I recall, the scalar function inlining query optimization improvement, made it to GA in SQL Server 2019 before it made it to Azure SQL DB. However, a couple of exceptions aside, looking to the ...

A few months ago a new option was added to the Sql.Database and Sql.Databases functions in Power Query in Power BI and Excel which allows Power Query queries that combine data from different SQL ...

However there are times when a developer must combine Hibernate, JPA and SQL queries within their code. The Jakarta Persistence API provides two standard ways to pull records from a database using ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Query Store is one of the most powerful database-scoped features in SQL Server for troubleshooting performance and improving the stability of your database ...

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