On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

There’s no built-in way to generate a running total in your Access queries, but you can still get the job done if you set up your table correctly and build the right expression. Database expert Susan ...

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them. Initially created in the 1970s, ...

You don't have to give up using dynamic SQL just because you're using Entity Framework. The Entity Framework SqlQuery method will give you back the flexibility of dynamic SQL and still let you work ...

In the world of Hadoop and NoSQL, the spotlight is now on SQL-on-Hadoop engines. Today, many different engines are available, making it hard for organizations to choose. This article presents some ...

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had a utility ...

Ok, I have to work with this db designed by someone else that is essentially emulating a flat file db.<BR><BR>One of the functions is it exports the data to a real flat-file. The problem I've run into ...

In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view. We ...