Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

This works also for graph tables containing edge constraints. But it is not possible to restore the data from the DACPAC because the restore process uses truncate, and this is not valid on tables with ...

Popularized amid heated debates around health-care reform in the 1990s, the catchphrase lives on in 2020. “The most important thing our leaders can do is to have an agenda that really addresses the ...

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

Doctors also call this condition the fainting reflex or autonomic dysfunction. It causes a person’s heart rate to slow down instead of speed up when they stand, which keeps blood from pooling in the ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

Tables display pieces of information that have some sort of relationship. For example, the dates on a calendar are organized horizontally by day of the week and vertically by week of the month. A list ...