You can use SQL to create, modify, search, and display database information. Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements.

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

With SQLake, building a pipeline is as easy as writing a SQL query. This creates numerous benefits, including: Pipeline development cycles are shortened from months to weeks or days.

Like the GitHub Copilot, it won't replace solid SQL programming knowledge. Still, it can reduce your trips to online documentation and help business analysts start to write better queries.

CData, the company making it easy to connect, integrate, and automate enterprise data, is introducing a new capability for CData Connect Cloud, dubbed the Connect Cloud AI Generator, which is a ...

SQL Server verifies that the assembly code is type-safe and validates the code when it's cataloged. This not only saves time—because the runtime usually does this during the JIT process (at first load ...

Does 3.23 support derived tables (aka inline views)? If so, plug the SELECT statement that would have generated the temp. table directly into your main query, and Bob's your uncle.

SQL Server 2022 takes that ability a few steps further. Last year, I wrote a column on the introduction of query store hints into Azure SQL Database.

However, SQL Server 2016 also fully supports the rowset-to-JSON query scenario when you write a regular T-SQL query and then map results to JSON objects via the FOR JSON clause. For more information ...