The better your SQL database performs, the more effectively it will fulfill its purpose of providing information to the apps and services that rely upon it to function. Optimizing database performance ...

The world of the data professionals and DBAs is swirling with threats and risks, and those dangers are on the rise. You’re probably accustomed to using longstanding database fea­tures to secure your ...

In the last several articles, I’ve been describing the benefits of reading and analyzing the benchmarking case studies vetted and released by the Transaction Processing Council (www.tpc.org). I’ve ...

Chat2DB, an open source SQL client enhanced by artificial intelligence, has introduced significant updates designed to reshape how professionals manage and interact with databases. By incorporating ...

Using SSDT means we don't just shout orders at the database; instead, we plan what we're going to say. For almost 13 years, Microsoft has tried to make Visual Studio a place where developers can do ...

A 34-vote social media poll showed 44.1 percent support for adding more database tooling options to Visual Studio, with 41.2 percent opposed and 14.7 percent choosing "Either way." Several responses ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...

If you're considering moving your on-premises SQL Server databases to the Microsoft Azure cloud, you need to decide which of the different cloud options works best for you. You might not realize it to ...

Since the early days of IMS and Db2, third-party vendors have capitalized on the database administrator community's interest in aftermarket tool sets. Think of any DBA support activity, from ...