Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

In ClickHouse documentation, for TRUNCATE TABLE: https://clickhouse.com/docs/sql-reference/statements/truncate#truncate-table, the SYNC keyword seems not available ...

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 ...

When designing objects in SQL Server, we must follow certain best practices. For example, a table should have primary keys, identity columns, clustered and unclustered indexes, data integrity and ...

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

While temporal data support is something that has existed in the past within other database platforms, it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven’t ...