Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it. As a consultant, I work on wide swaths of database systems, which means I get to see many, many SQL statements ...
A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...
DataHub's Context Intelligence mines validated SQL query history to build a semantic index for AI agents. At Miro, agents hit a 65% error rate without it.
Microsoft has found a new use for natural language processing capabilities in machine learning large language models (LLMs): SQL queries. The company has set up a sandbox for developers and data pros ...
First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...