Postcodes are just text values. How does Power BI know where each postcode is on a map? It does so by geocoding: sending each ...

At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas developer conference, SQL expert Denny Cherry will share essential indexing ...

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

DuckDB has recently introduced end-to-end interaction with Iceberg REST Catalogs directly within a browser tab, requiring no ...

In a modern enterprise data environment, the increasing volume of data, distributed architecture, and complex application dependencies challenge traditional query-tuning methods. Observability ...

Prequel is a SQL query engine built in C#. The goal of this project is to demonstrate how query engines are built, and to bring a query engine to the .NET community. The project contains a ...

Organizations are using generative AI to stay ahead of the competition, but the real advantage lies in harnessing the power of your own data securely and at scale. One of the most exciting new ...

RAISERROR ('Script does not match the ProductVersion [%s] of this instance. Many of these queries may not work on this version.' , 18 , 16 , @ProductVersion); EXEC sys.xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, N'detected ...

Abstract: In the contemporary world the size of database(s) is rising exponentially. Increased size of database inevitably necessitates performance maintenance in order that performance is enhanced or ...