As fintech platforms grow, the mix of performance tuning and security oversight becomes harder to manage manually. Systems ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...

In SQL Server, the CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE statement creates the path and folder if it doesn't already exist. You can then use INSERT INTO to export data from a local SQL Server table to the external ...

Camping tents and sleeping bags may get the glory, but your camping table is arguably the MVP of any camping trip. That’s because it’s the glue that ties together the best camp kitchens, acting as the ...

Have you ever found yourself talking aloud to figure out a problem, or do you prefer long, silent reflection before concluding? These habits might seem insignificant, but they indicate whether you are ...

Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. In an email sent to Tables users this week, Google said the app will not be ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

If you don’t routinely back up your data and have lost essential files from an external hard drive, external hard drive recovery can be challenging. External hard disk data recovery can be more ...