Common Table Expressions (CTEs) allow you to compartmentalise and organise your queries, to provide increased readability and hopefully easier maintenance. CTEs provide a dataset that an immediate ...

In OpenOffice 2.0 Reports, it's easy to do the simple stuff, like just printing the contents of a table or query. It requires no SQL know-how at all, just the ability to press F4 and click and drag.

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 ...

LibreOffice contains a very powerful database tool that is actually quite user friendly. Here’s how to create a database query using the Design View tool. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links ...

Build a lightweight SQL regression detector that tracks latency, detects anomalies, analyzes plans, and catches slowdowns ...

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 ...

JSON is a very common method of describing data, in many ways it is a successor to the often much wordier XML. The basics of JSON are discussed, describing its 2 main components: Objects and Arrays, ...