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SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

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 been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

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 ...

Because product fields should be real SQL columns — not blobs, not JSONB, and definitely not WordPress/Umbraco style postmeta. Solid SQL Tables is a runtime schema engine for SQL Server that reads ...

Imagine having round-the-clock access to fresh, up-to-date information on a topic you care about—automatically collected, stored in the cloud, and available to anyone you choose. That’s exactly what ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...