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 ...

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 ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

SQL Insider Drilling Down on Queries Now that you understand the basic structure of a SQL application, let's dissect the basis of information retrieval: the query. By Anil Desai 02/01/2001 For ...

On September 9, news emerged that the 51st top database conference, VLDB 2025, concluded in London, UK, with two research ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...

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 ...

SQL views make accessing multiple data types and storing complex queries easier whereas materialized views can help you improve efficiency and boost performance.