Principal Architect Sandeep Patil’s landmark research charts a new course for cloud-native data warehousing — from serverless MPP engines and lakehouse convergence to AI-powered query optimization and ...

Abstract: In an era where business agility is paramount, the ability of an enterprise to process information and react to market changes is dictated by the nervous system that connects its digital ...

Synapse (Azure Synapse Analytics) is a SQL dialect very similar to SQL Server and in many environments uses the same driver. Most translations in backend-mssql.R work for both, but Synapse does not ...

In this extra cozy Slate Plus bonus episode, Laura Miller shares with Steve and Nadira Goffe all her hard-won insights from stacking wood to build the perfect Holzhausen. As detailed in her recent ...

The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say. Google is previewing a new AI-driven feature in its BigQuery data warehouse that ...

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The best defense against prompt injection and other AI attacks is to do some basic engineering, test more, and not rely on AI to protect you. If you want to know what is actually happening in ...

A small, in-memory SQL query engine implemented in Python. It loads CSV files into memory, parses a small subset of SQL, executes queries (projection, filtering, simple aggregation), and exposes a ...

In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that goes beyond simple question answering. We design it to intelligently route queries to the right ...

Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

MS SQL Server: Learn from Scratch – Build and manage databases, write queries, and navigate SQL Server Management Studio like a pro. SQL Server Backup & Recovery – Protect data with full, differential ...