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Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks. While the embrace of big data, machine learning, and IoT by business enterprises everywhere may ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

Every professional programmer (and DBA) should have a library of books on SQL fundamentals. There are many SQL titles to choose from, and a lot of them are very good. But this month's column will ...

Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...

You don't need to be a software developer to quickly create an API that will retrieve the information you need. One of the recent announcements at the SQLBits conference in Wales in March was the ...

As the amount of data we have expands, so do the challenges in protecting and managing it. The 2023 Professional Microsoft SQL Database Development Bundle explores how to build, maintain, protect, and ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

From a knowledge standpoint, learning SQL makes sense. The web is all about data, and SQL is the primary language for managing data and data structures…therefore, it’s definitely something worth ...