Database research and development often require a large number of SQL queries for benchmarking purposes. However, acquiring real-world SQL queries is challenging due to privacy concerns, and existing ...

In today’s competitive job market, securing a role in database management is difficult. SQL (Structured Query Language) remains a fundamental skill for database administrators, software developers, ...

We describe the Dimensions Search Language (DSL), a domain-specific language for bibliographic and scientometrics analysis. The DSL is the main component of the Dimensions API (version 2.12.0), which ...

Microsoft is previewing its new mssql-python driver, claiming that it is significantly faster and better than the industry-standard pyodbc. pyodbc is pretty much the industry-standard driver for ...

In Snowflake, semi-structured data, such as JSON, XML, Avro, and Parquet, can be handled efficiently using specific notations provided to access parts of the data. The following two types of notation ...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making. The ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...