"Find the best-selling product from last year." When an AI system attempts to answer a question like this by querying a company database, even a single reference to a nonexistent item can cause the ...

AI has transformed the way companies work and interact with data. A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information from large swathes of data. Today, all they ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

PostgreSQL subqueries allow one SQL query to run inside another, making it possible to solve filtering, aggregation, ...

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 ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

On Aug. 8, 2012, a group of engineers at Facebook started the Presto project, introducing a new SQL query engine to help the social media giant to scale. After a decade of growth, the technology is ...

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client. SQL Server ...

A native BM25 index in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL provides full-text retrieval without having to provision, manage, or pay for separate systems.