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 ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

DataHub's Context Intelligence mines validated SQL query history to build a semantic index for AI agents. At Miro, agents hit ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...