Normalized data giving you problems? Learn how to use the SQL subselect statement and handle your database like a pro!

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But ...

Apache Hive: This is the original SQL-on-Hadoop solution, which tries to emulate the behavior, syntax, and interface (s) of MySQL, including a command-line client. It also includes a Java API and ...

Note: The order in which processing occurs is not the same as the order of the statements in the example. The first SELECT statement (the PROC SQL query) displays and formats the data that is ...

However, there are any number of queries in any application that SQL Server may never see again (at least in, for example, the next 24 hours). The plans for these "one-time" queries are taking up ...