Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

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 ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

Do you want to analyze data that resides in Google BigQuery as part of an R workflow? Thanks to the bigrquery R package, it’s a pretty seamless experience — once you know a couple of small tweaks ...

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 ...

If you’ve always been in awe of folks using the Google Search Console API to do cool things, this article is a good read for you. You can use BigQuery with the GSC bulk data export to get some of the ...

Oracle SQL Developer is a great tool for managing Oracle Databases. It has a user-friendly interface that makes it easier to handle database tasks. The software offers features to simplify workflows ...

In this post, we will show you how to reorder multiple columns in Power Query with Drag & Drop. Often when importing data from various sources, columns may not be in the desired order. Reordering ...