Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...

Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

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I was scrolling through YouTube and came across a video where one of my heroes, Brent Ozar (brenozar.com), showed how temporary tables and statistics can cause trouble for us developers working in SQL ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...

Temporal tables have been a feature of SQL Server since version 2016. SQL Server professionals have historically had various options to track data change events. This evolution in data tracking ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

Hackers have been observed trying to breach cloud environments through Microsoft SQL Servers vulnerable to SQL injection. Microsoft's security researchers report that this lateral movement technique ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...