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 ...

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 ...

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

New Taxonomy Scaling out SQL Azure with federated database instances follows a pattern similar to that for on-premises SQL Server, but is subject to several important limitations. For example, SQL ...

Even if generative AI hides SQL behind the curtain, it will continue to play a critical role in how we interact with and use data. In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...