The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say.

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

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Provided your database can implement prefix string searches as an indexed range search, materializing the path is conceptually simple and avoids the write/update overhead of nested sets. I used this ...

This section describes how to retrieve DBMS data by using the statements and components of the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility to access DBMS data. The Pass-Through Facility uses the SAS/ACCESS ...