Despite all the hoopla about Hadoop, NoSQL databases and other big data technologies, relational database management systems continue to be the cornerstone of the IT infrastructure for processing, ...

Knowing what you want from SQL Server is probably the biggest step toward running it successfully in business applications, according to consultant Koen Verbeeck. It's not just about knowing how SQL ...

This book aims to improve your SQL queries using design patterns, how does it fare? The book contains a wide range of topics, supposedly held together by design patterns and best practices. Design ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.

One way to slow down your application is to make multiple trips to the database. Here's a way to cut those trips in half (at least) and it has to do with the EntityFramework.Extended library. In an ...

A new tool from Google Cloud aims to improve the accuracy of AI agents querying databases in multi-agent systems or applications. However, to create that necessary understanding, enterprise teams ...