ENVIRONMENT: A cutting-edge Tech company in Durban wants you to join its team as its next Database Administrator where you will be responsible for the day-to-day administration, maintenance, ...

ENVIRONMENT: A cutting-edge Tech company in Durban wants you to join its team as its next Database Administrator where you will be responsible for the day-to-day administration, maintenance, ...

Postcodes are just text values. How does Power BI know where each postcode is on a map? It does so by geocoding: sending each ...

At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas developer conference, SQL expert Denny Cherry will share essential indexing ...

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Abstract: In recent years, the integration of natural language processing (NLP) with database querying has led to the emergence of Text-to-SQL systems, which enable nontechnical users to interact with ...

At Microsoft Build 2025, we announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025. Built on a foundation of best-in-class security, performance, and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers customers to ...

I have a sql query that is reading a ~200mb xml blob from a SQL Server XML field. After upgrading to 9.3, performance of this query has plummeted. After some further investigation, this performance ...

Abstract: The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced Text-to-SQL tasks in recent years. However, these models still face considerable challenges when applied in practice, ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...