A Query is a tool that retrieves data from a single table or multiple tables; it is the most powerful tool to analyze your data in Microsoft Access; Basically, a Query is just a question presented in ...

You don't have to give up using dynamic SQL just because you're using Entity Framework. The Entity Framework SqlQuery method will give you back the flexibility of dynamic SQL and still let you work ...

A free tool to reduce coding for developers who like to surface T-SQL database recordsets in a simple collection of customized POCO objects. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had a utility ...

If you query your Access database to generate a mailing list, but the list contains duplicate names and addresses, this helpful trick will save you some time. See how tweaking the query properties can ...

You aren’t stuck with the same fields you began with when you first created an Access query—it’s possible to rename your queries without going back to square one. Mary Ann Richardson shows how to add ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...

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 ...