In distributed systems architecture, the synchronization gap between external HTTP APIs and relational database targets represents a persistent engineering challenge—particularly when API responses ...

Azure Data Studio will officially be retired on February 28, 2026. Microsoft just announced the retirement in a blog post, recommending that all users try out the alternatives: Visual Studio Code and ...

Alex Merced is the co-author of O'Reilly's "Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide" and a developer advocate for Dremio SQL (Structured Query Language) has long been the standard for interacting with ...

In my recent article I've reported about a nice free alternative to manage SQL databases, which, from the same UI can manage also MySQL databases. I thought that it might be a good idea to actually ...

Take advantage of stored procedures, query pagination, query caching, and other advanced Dapper feature to simplify data access and ensure high performance. The Dapper ORM (object-relational mapper) ...

The fundamental principle of cloud systems is a focus on multiple, disposable, and replaceable machines. This has direct consequences for the implementation techniques, and therefore the capabilities ...

The SQL Repay tool was created since SQL Server's Replay feature is based on SQL Server Profiler traces rather than SQL Server Extended Events. Other key features of the SQL Replay tool: We don't want ...

This topic provides an overview for using the bcp utility to export data from anywhere in a [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] database where a SELECT statement works, including partitioned views. The bcp utility ...