SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the tool of choice for most developers working with SQL infrastructure and data. Microsoft recently released SSMS version 22, and in the past few months, it has ...

Use these official MCP servers to interact with the leading database platforms via natural language through your LLM-assisted ...

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data ...

This server enables end users to query KDB-X data through natural language, providing production-grade resources, prompts, and tools for seamless data interaction. Built on an extensible framework ...

The primary key column is often set to auto-increment when constructing a SQL Server database. To achieve this, the IDENTITY property is enabled on the primary key column. The starting value and ...

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.

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

This article was written in collaboration with Bohan Zhang and originally appeared on the OtterTune website. In this article, we’ll dive into MVCC: what it is, how PostgreSQL does it, and why it is ...

If you want to be a true spreadsheet power user, you need to learn about the Power Query and Power Pivot features in Excel. While you can get a lot done with Excel alone, using these built-in “Power” ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Microsoft SQL Server 2022 introduces the newest version of PolyBase, and with it the capability to query data where it lives, virtualize data, and use REST ...