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 ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

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SuperSQL is an extension of SQL that allows formatting and publishing of database contents into various kinds of application data directly as a result of a query. Possible application data output ...

A Compiler-Centric Approach for Modern Workloads and Heterogeneous Hardware. Michael Jungmair Technical University of Munich ...

“SQL on everything” is the tagline associated with Presto, the query engine that was initially developed by Facebook to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data — particularly data that lay scattered ...

Is it SQL, NoSQL, or NewSQL? Even though it's just naming conventions, MemSQL is usually thought of as part of the NewSQL lot. That is, databases grounded on the relational SQL model yet adopting some ...

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...

The purpose of the Text-to-SQL task is to bridge the gap between natural language and SQL queries. Current approaches mainly rely on large language models (LLMs), but employing them for Text-to-SQL ha ...