As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

Is SQL a legitimate programming language? Your email has been sent Developers often dispute the merits of SQL as a legitimate programming language, but this misses the point. SQL is a powerful 4GL for ...

Built-in functions, UDFs, materialized results, and integrations with ML and AI models make streaming SQL a compelling choice ...

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...