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 ...

static void Main(string[] args) { var script = @" ALTER TABLE table1 ADD CONSTRAINT PK_Constrain PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (a) WITH (ONLINE = ON, MAXDOP = 2, RESUMABLE = ON, MAX_DURATION = 240); "; var ...

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 ...

Our previous blog article, “The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most,” discussed the problems caused by everyone’s favorite street-strength DBMS multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) implementation.

I want to cover one way you can do CI/CD for Azure Synapse Analytics serverless SQL pools using Azure DevOps in this post. Because I know it is a popular topic. It is related to my post about how you ...

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 ...