One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

As SQL development increasingly becomes part of full-stack workflows, developers are looking for ways to simplify their tooling without compromising capability. While SQL Server Management Studio ...

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A 34-vote social media poll showed 44.1 percent support for adding more database tooling options to Visual Studio, with 41.2 percent opposed and 14.7 percent choosing "Either way." Several responses ...

SQL stands for ‘Structured Query Language’. This is basically a declarative language used for storing and retrieving data in a database. If you’ve heard of SQL, it’s probably in the context of MySQL, ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

Wondering what’s new from the Oracle Database develop­ment team? William Hardie, vice president of Oracle Data­base product management, shared the latest information about features and enhancements ...

The SQL Database Administrator’s role is to design, install, monitor, maintain and performance tune production SQL databases while ensuring high levels of data availability. This individual is also ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

There are many different ways to look at database administration. It can be done by task, by discipline, by DBMS, by server, and so on. But one useful way to look at database administration is in ...