I've been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to the data tier. Writing the ...

Note: The best way to install and use this extension is by installing the InterSystems ObjectScript Extension Pack and following the documentation here. This is a LSP compliant language server for ...

ScopedValue is an alternative to ThreadLocal, and works in tandem with VirtualThreads and the new StructuredTaskScope. Find out what scoped values can do for your multithreaded programs in Java. As ...

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 ...

When you start writing M code for loading data in Power Query or Power BI, one of the first things you’ll do is open up the Advanced Editor for a query you’ve already built using the UI. When you do ...

Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation. In a previous TechRepublic column about SQL Server ...

SQL Server 2008 introduces the ability to pass a table data type into stored procedures and functions. The table parameter feature can greatly ease the development process because you no longer need ...