Prototyping is my favorite part of programming. I like building new stuff and getting things working. It’s no surprise, then, that I am a big fan of MongoDB and NoSQL in general. Don’t get me wrong: I ...

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

The current process uses Azure Data Factory (ADF) to call Eventbrite APIs to get all of the registrations, but I wanted to see if we could perform the same process now in SQL Server. I'll walk through ...

Why Directly Altering Column Position in a SQL Server Table Isn't Supported Like It Is in MySQL 1. Storage Implications: Unlike MySQL, which stores tables row-by-row, SQL Server uses a more complex ...

Margaret Rouse is an award-winning technical writer and teacher known for her ability to explain complex technical subjects simply to a non-technical, business audience. Over… DBMSs are important ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

Abstract: In a web application, communication between the application and the database server is one of the most resource intensive operations which therefore requires optimization. Database ...

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This paper aims to establish a relative study between a relational Microsoft SQL Server database and a non-relational MongoDB database within the unstructured representation of data in JSON format.

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...