A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

AI is changing how developers and analysts write, debug, and optimize SQL — from natural language query generation to intelligent schema-aware assistance. Tools like Oracle APEX AI Assistant, Claude, ...

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 ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

Write a Query, Get a Pipeline SQLake redefines ease of use for pipeline development. Both data engineers and data consumers can build and deploy a continuous pipeline using only SQL in a few easy ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

Google is abandoning its homegrown SQL variant as the recommended default query language for its BigQuery service in favor of a new standard-compliant dialect in the works for the managed data ...

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had a utility ...