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 ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Out of all the programming languages you need to learn in the IT industry, SQL is one of the most important. SQL is so integral to modern big data access and organization processes that it’s never a ...

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...