Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

The United States needs serious discussion about national security. We should be talking about Russia’s drone technology, China’s hypersonic missiles and the possibility of nuclear war or nuclear ...

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To rename a table in Azure Synapse Analytics or Parallel Data Warehouse, use [RENAME OBJECT](../../t-sql/statements/rename-transact-sql.md). > Think carefully before ...

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 ...

Abstract: Dynamic data masking (DDM) is a powerful data-security technique for protecting personal and other sensitive information in databases from unauthorized access. A DDM can be used to mask or ...