In fact, SQL Server outnumbers both of these database vendors in installed sites globally. Microsoft SQL Server has arrived!

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

Joey on SQL Server Hands-On with Copilot for Azure SQL Database I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. By Joey D ...

(Note: this SQL example also represents other security problems in that passwords in the database appear to be stored in plain text. However, that is outside the scope of this article, and encryption ...

Speaking of the database engine, the SQL Server development team continues to push for even better performance capabilities. For example, SQL Server 2019 has a new recovery feature called Accelerated ...

How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises? Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics.

Example SQL commands include "SELECT" to pull rows of data matching certain characteristics; "INSERT," to add additional rows of data to a database; "UPDATE," to change attributes of existing rows ...

To find the database name you can pipe the output of Get-AzureSqlDatabasServer directly to Get-AzureSqlDatabase. You can see here that I'll be using a database name of myazuredatabase. [Click on image ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English ...