Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA. Here are the key concepts to understand about cloud scripting and a rundown of the best tools for automating code in ...

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

Connecting Visual Basic to SQL databases gives your applications the ability to store, retrieve, and update information dynamically. By setting up the right environment, using ADO.NET for database ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...

The annual PASS Summit, the industry’s largest gathering of SQL Server professionals, hosted more than 4,000 attendees in Seattle recently recently. PASS (www.pass.org) has grown to more than 300 ...

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 ...

Even if generative AI hides SQL behind the curtain, it will continue to play a critical role in how we interact with and use data. In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on ...