Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them. Initially created in the 1970s, ...

This fifth edition of a well-known title has been updated for Oracle 12c. As with previous editions, the book is very hands-on; you’re introduced to a concept, shown an example, then asked to work ...

This is the sixth edition of a well established title that has been updated for the latest version of PL/SQL (21c). The book opens with a checklist of the new features in Oracle 21c before the actual ...

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...