Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...

As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward. As I've ...

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A primary key is a unique identifier for each record in a database table, making sure no two rows have the same primary key value. This keeps the data clean and easy to work with. In a relational ...

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This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

This library can be used to configure triggers on a SQLite database such that any inserts, updates or deletes against a table will have their changes recorded in a ...

A database is an essential component of any modern application, providing a repository for storing and retrieving large amounts of information. Building a database can seem daunting, but it can be ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...