The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

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On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

In this article, we will look at how to fix The server certificate did not match any of the expected values, Error 0x8a15005e. The issue happens when a user is trying ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

I'm using a EF Core 6 DbContext transaction to create/update entities on a SQL Server temporal table. The data I'm processing (array of items) has a key (Year-Sequential, like: 2023-001, 2023-002, etc ...