When all queries against a SQL Server instance or a particular database application are slow, the cause is often outside any single query. This article helps database administrators and application ...

NVIDIA has open-sourced Auto Ontology, a framework designed to make AI agents more reliable when querying enterprise databases using natural-language instructions. The system creates a semantic layer ...

A new reinforcement learning optimizer called LIGHT uses dynamic graph attention and logarithmic reward shaping to cut query ...

The theme for this time is SQL "execution plans."Execution plans are one of the technologies you absolutely must understand when considering database performance.However, this content might also be a ...

SQL, which stands for Structured Query Language, is a standardized programming language used for managing and manipulating relational databases. It allows users to interact with databases, perform ...

In SQL Server 2016 (13.x) and later, some changes are only enabled once the database compatibility level has been changed. This was done for several reasons: Since upgrade is a one-way operation (it ...