The surprise came when Microsoft SQL Server was announced as the DBMS of the year for 2016 by DB-Engines.com. For the 12 months of 2016, SQL Server experienced a steep rise in popularity as a search ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

In Version 6, the SAS System's SQL procedure enabled you to retrieve and update data from DBMS tables and views. You could read and display DBMS data by specifying a ...

The following examples use the SQL procedure to query, update, and create DBMS tables. Querying a DBMS Table This example uses the SQL procedure to query the ORACLE table PAYROLL. The PROC SQL query ...

Tables within a database management system (DBMS) need primary keys and defined indexes in order for the DBMS to have the opportunity to provide good query performance. Without indexing, the worst ...

Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called ...