SQL stands for ‘Structured Query Language’. This is basically a declarative language used for storing and retrieving data in a database. If you’ve heard of SQL, it’s probably in the context of MySQL, ...

I have written an application that takes in a fixed-width file (thanks in no small part to advice I recieved in a seperate thread) and then dissasembles each line, runs a fairly meaty SQL SELECT query ...

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 ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

Overview: SQLite is suitable for apps that require reliable storage and small but frequent updates.DuckDB can handle large ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...