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 ...

As I've said on numerous occasions (and summed up here), speeding up business applications comes down to reducing the number of trips to the database and optimizing your server-side data access once ...

InfluxData Inc. is the developer of InfluxDB, an open-source platform designed to retrieve and store time series data for monitoring, analysis, metrics and more. Recently, the company announced the ...

Google Drive, formerly Google Docs, allows you to collaborate with colleagues anywhere in the world. This can be particularly useful when you need to share information in real time. For example, you ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More At the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle today, Microsoft announced ...

SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform (which is available as a Community Technology Preview [CTP] as of this writing), includes exciting ...

Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it. As a consultant, I work on wide swaths of database systems, which means I get to see many, many SQL statements ...