Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

A few strategic decisions can help improve your generative AI code and queries, and prevent sending out sensitive data.

Do you ever find yourself juggling queries to get the information you need? Subselects, also called subqueries, may be just what you’ve been looking for. This SQL feature allows you to query ...

Need to use raw SQL with JPA and JPA? The Jakarta Persistence API's NativeQuery interface makes it possible to use Hibernate, SQL and JPA together in the same app.

Take advantage of query types in EF Core to query types that don’t have keys and to map to tables and views that lack an identity column.

Excel displays a table with retrieved records that return as a result of the underlying SQL query of the data source by the Query Wizard. View the SQL query to see how the code retrieves data from ...