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.

SQL Server Query Store automatically captures a wide range of data about the queries that are executed on your database. This includes the full text of each query, the execution plan selected by ...

Store SQL*Plus variables The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the SQL*Plus script. Written by Donald Burleson, Contributor June 18 ...

Like it or not, Relational Databases store most of the world's structured data and Structured Query Language (SQL) is by far the most frequent way of retrieving the data. According to the most recent ...

The data type of a column in a database defines the kind of values that the column can hold, such as integers, strings, dates, and more. These types guide the SQL engine on how to store, query, and ...