Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

A few strategic decisions can help improve your generative AI code and queries, and prevent sending out sensitive data.

Need to use raw SQL with JPA and JPA? The Jakarta Persistence API's NativeQuery interface makes it possible to use Hibernate, SQL and JPA together in the same app.

Take advantage of query types in EF Core to query types that don’t have keys and to map to tables and views that lack an identity column.

New open-source efforts from Snowflake aim to help solve that unsolved challenges of text-to-SQL and inference performance for enterprise AI.