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To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.
Example SQL commands include "SELECT" to pull rows of data matching certain characteristics; "INSERT," to add additional rows of data to a database; "UPDATE," to change attributes of existing rows ...
Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA. Here are the key concepts to understand about cloud ...
This will not prevent SQL injection attacks aimed at inappropriate access to information, but it will prevent SQL injection attacks that are intended to cause unauthorized changes to the database.
SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...
A SQL injection attack, then, is when a threat actor uses a SQL query to inject unauthorized code into an application or database — in essence, weaponizing potential user input. Depending on its level ...
Speaking of the database engine, the SQL Server development team continues to push for even better performance capabilities. For example, SQL Server 2019 has a new recovery feature called Accelerated ...
A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.
For the past fifty years, SQL has helped us understand, manipulate and use our data to our advantage.
To find the database name you can pipe the output of Get-AzureSqlDatabasServer directly to Get-AzureSqlDatabase. You can see here that I'll be using a database name of myazuredatabase. [Click on image ...