The benchmark used 100 TB TPC-DS data sets; Oracle says its business semantic layer and AI Data Catalog capabilities will be ...

Starting with the conclusionIn the BigQuery release notes for October 5, 2026, Iceberg external tables and Iceberg managed ...

The theme for this session is database "indexes".Indexes are one of the technologies you absolutely must understand when ...

Schema change is inevitable. We do not get everything right the first time, and even when we do, the world around the database keeps changing. Requirements mature, products evolve, and assumptions ...

A computed column is a virtual column that isn't physically stored in the table, unless the column is marked PERSISTED. A computed column expression can use data from other columns to calculate a ...

Applies to: SQL Server 2016 (13.x) and later versions Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance SQL database in Microsoft Fabric Tables that use sparse columns can designate a column set to return ...

Many BigQuery customers rely on policy tags for protecting their sensitive information in BigQuery. Policy tags were the go-to solution for applying column-level access controls, allowing only users ...

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data ...

D1 has built-in support for querying and parsing JSON data stored within a database. This enables you to: One of the biggest benefits to parsing JSON within D1 directly is that it can directly reduce ...

SQL Crack is a VS Code extension that visualizes SQL queries as interactive execution flow diagrams. Understand complex queries at a glance, track data lineage across your entire workspace, and ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...