Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

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 ...

The primary key column is often set to auto-increment when constructing a SQL Server database. To achieve this, the IDENTITY property is enabled on the primary key column. The starting value and ...

A seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in building complex distributed data-intensive backend services. The most general way to satisfy a COUNT DISTINCT or SELECT DISTINCT clause is to ...

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.

Databricks on Wednesday introduced a new version of its data lakehouse offering, dubbed Delta Lake 3.0, in order to take on the rising popularity of Apache Iceberg tables used by rival Snowflake. As ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Microsoft SQL Server 2022 introduces the newest version of PolyBase, and with it the capability to query data where it lives, virtualize data, and use REST ...

The Cartography Table is a handy block in Minecraft that several players use for multiple tasks. Often seen as only being used by cartographers in villages, the block is a boon to those who know how ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

Hollie Crutchley ate another table’s chicken basket then lashed out when someone suggested she pay for the food (Picture: Credit Stoke Sentinel/BPM Media) A woman glassed a fellow pub-goer after being ...