Big data is everywhere. It’s become a fashionable topic du jour, and in an industry like search engine marketing, where data is everything, that trend holds especially true. One of my favorite quotes ...

Microsoft is integrating AI features directly into SQL Server for the first time. The new version also brings JSON support and changes the licensing model.

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client. SQL Server ...

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 ...

Whether you’re just getting in to programming or you’ve avoided learning SQL, it’s something every developer faces eventually. You may not be responsible for building and maintaining a database, but ...

So much of modern programming is about string manipulation. Whether it’s parsing XML content, building HTML for the browser or trying to understand what the user just typed into that text entry field, ...