Common Table Expressions (CTEs) allow you to compartmentalise and organise your queries, to provide increased readability and hopefully easier maintenance. CTEs provide a dataset that an immediate ...

JSON is a very common method of describing data, in many ways it is a successor to the often much wordier XML. The basics of JSON are discussed, describing its 2 main components: Objects and Arrays, ...

Knowing what you want from SQL Server is probably the biggest step toward running it successfully in business applications, according to consultant Koen Verbeeck. It's not just about knowing how SQL ...

SQL, the Structured Query Language, remains one of the most widely used programming languages, coming in fourth in Stack Overflow’s research for 2023. Just over half (51.52%) of professional ...

If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL, but ...

In OpenOffice 2.0 Reports, it's easy to do the simple stuff, like just printing the contents of a table or query. It requires no SQL know-how at all, just the ability to press F4 and click and drag.

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

Devart is releasing dbForge 2026.1, a major update that brings a variety of new features and long-anticipated enhancements to the entire dbForge ecosystem. According to Devart, the update will cover ...

Databases are the backbone of countless applications and systems, yet managing them can often feel like navigating a maze of complexity. If you’ve ever found yourself wrestling with SQL queries, ...