dbtpl is a command-line tool to inspect and generate templated code based on a database schema or a custom database query. In addition to being able to generate standardized "model" code for a ...

SQL is no longer just a "nice-to-have" skill for RevOps roles—it’s become essential. Over the last year, I’ve noticed more and more RevOps job descriptions requiring SQL skills. Why? Because SQL ...

If you’re new to working with databases, you might be realizing there’s a lot to unpack. When I was first introduced to SQL JOINs, I found them pretty confusing — I wasn’t sure what purpose they ...

In the world of databases, joins are the backbone of SQL queries. Joins allow us to retrieve data from two or more tables based on a related column between them, essentially knitting together ...

First off, let’s create an ASP.NET Core 7 project in Visual Studio 2022. Follow these steps: We’ll use this ASP.NET Core 7 Web API project to work with advanced features of Dapper in the sections ...

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

It’s really common to want to join different result sets together when dealing with data in SQL Server. After learning INNER and LEFT joins, you’ll have probably learnt how to use UNION, but in all ...

In a late addition to the series of posts that I started here a few months ago, I thought it would be useful to look at how to optimise the performance of a rare (but nonetheless useful) type of merge ...

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 ...

Like it or not, Relational Databases store most of the world's structured data and Structured Query Language (SQL) is by far the most frequent way of retrieving the data. According to the most recent ...

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of. SQL Server 2016 provides ...

I recently published a tutorial describing the different available methods to store data locally in an Android app. However, due to article length constraints, I could not adequately cover creating ...