Here’s one big advantage to moving to Microsoft Azure SQL Database—you never have to patch. That’s right. The various SKUs available in Azure’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering are automatically ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Unraveling work troubles, one by one.When talking about databases, English words like SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE come up.SQL is a language used to tell a database 'which data you want to read' or ...

Each version of Microsoft’s SQL Server comes with five years of full support, followed by five years of security-only updates. Here are five questions to ask before your next upgrade. 1. Should My ...

Microsoft has withdrawn the free ESU deal on Azure for SQL Server 2016, turning deferral into a priced, back-billed decision for South African estates.

What the best way to work around this? I have the same SELECT statement but there are different criteria depending on the IF check. Well, if you happen to be using Sql Server you can do that sort of ...

This chapter excerpt on Parallel SQL (download PDF) is taken from the book Oracle Performance Survival Guide: A Systematic Approach to Database Optimization. Get pertinent information on optimizing ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...