InfoWorld

SQL unleashed: 9 ways to speed up your SQL queries

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 ...
dbta

Writing for SQL Performance

Through the many changes in IT over the years, one constant has always been a concern for performance. With database systems there is especially true. Even with the many advances in relational ...
VentureBeat

Table-augmented generation shows promise for complex dataset querying, outperforms text-to-SQL

AI has transformed the way companies work and interact with data. A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information from large swathes of data. Today, all they ...
InfoWorld

Beyond SQL: 8 new languages for data querying

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 ...
Redmond Magazine

A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...