This week’s security newsletter was dominated by a Pentagon personnel data breach affecting more than three million people, ...

You can assign the FOR XML query result to an xml type variable, or use XQuery to query the result, and assign that result to an xml type variable for more processing. DECLARE @x xml SET @x=(SELECT ...

SQL Server DBA specializing in performance tuning and disaster recovery. Bad code rarely begins the cascade of most SQL Server performance problems. Typically, it begins with something that is much ...

Abstract: Data provenance provides fine-grained information about the origin and derivation of query results, directly supporting traceability, transparency, explainability and reproducibility in ...

In this tutorial, we build a comprehensive, hands-on understanding of DuckDB-Python by working through its features directly in code on Colab. We start with the fundamentals of connection management ...

Big data environments in organizations are only getting bigger. The ever-increasing volume and variety of data collected in them requires investments in big data tools to support analytics and AI ...

An existing Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account. Create JSON items within your Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account that contain varying levels of nested JSON data. Navigate to your Azure Cosmos DB account ...

We’re excited to announce that Workspaces is now generally available in the Snowsight interface. Workspaces brings a modern development experience to Snowflake, combining structured code organization, ...

This is a guest blog from Giorgi Dalakishvili, the developer of EFCore.Visualizer. Entity Framework Core is a powerful, feature-rich ORM powering many of today’s applications. With EF Core, developers ...

Pandas library has one of the fastest-growing communities. This popularity has opened the door for alternatives, like polars. In this article, we will explore one such alternative, DuckDB. DuckDB is ...