The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Looking to help make it simpler to navigate massive amounts of log data, Logentries this week announced it has developed a query language that is ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

Bintrail is a recently introduced layer that brings point-in-time queries and row-history lookups to MySQL, the only major ...

Note: For the purposes of today’s article, I will assume that you’re using SQL Server 2005 or later. Every SQL Server database has at least two files; a data file and a transaction log file. The data ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

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 ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...