I've been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to the data tier. Writing the ...

In data management and processing, performance is key. Recently, I undertook a project involving the bulk insertion of data from an Excel file into an SQL Server database. The challenge was to ensure ...

In my recent article I've reported about a nice free alternative to manage SQL databases, which, from the same UI can manage also MySQL databases. I thought that it might be a good idea to actually ...

Here, I am going to discuss some basic and most important configurations of the SQL Server Instance and Database Level which might be ignored and can cause performance issues. Although this is not the ...

This topic provides an overview for using the bcp utility to export data from anywhere in a [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] database where a SELECT statement works, including partitioned views. The bcp utility ...

Business intelligence (BI) software is a collection of decision support technologies for the enterprise aimed at enabling knowledge workers such as executives, managers, and analysts to make better ...

SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part in ...