As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

Overview: Text-to-SQL simplifies queries but can misinterpret data structures and phrases.Ensuring up-to-date schema info and providing examples improves accura ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

If you want to take a copy of one table and make a copy of it in another schema (under another username), you can use the SQL*Plus COPY command, or a simple <code>"create table foo as select * from ...