Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

Shelley Doll finishes her coverage of SQL data types with an overview of datetime and interval data types. Learn more about the basic syntax of these standard SQL types.

Most respondents were running production on SQL Server versions 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 (around 16% each), with SQL Server versions 2005, 2008, and 2016 at the next tier of adoption (around 10%). Most ...

Code Focused Deleting All Data from a SQL Server Database There are times as a developer that you will want to be able to delete all the data from a database as efficiently as possible. Unfortunately, ...

Time series databases provide optimum support for working with time-dependent data. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...

One of the downloads, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools, offers features like a new data generator wizard, new refractory types and new test conditions, as well as ...