VentureBeat

Table-augmented generation shows promise for complex dataset querying, outperforms text-to-SQL

AI has transformed the way companies work and interact with data. A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information from large swathes of data. Today, all they ...

SQL query logs hold the context AI agents need to stop hallucinating joins

DataHub's Context Intelligence mines validated SQL query history to build a semantic index for AI agents. At Miro, agents hit ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Full-Text Search in SQL 2012 with Custom Proximity

Custom proximity search is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012 Full-Text Search. It's facilitated using the NEAR operator, allowing it to be used in the CONTAINS predicate or CONTAINSTABLE ...
InfoWorld

Beyond SQL: 8 new languages for data querying

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 ...
Redmond Magazine

A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1

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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Generating .NET POCO Classes for SQL Query Results

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 ...
InfoWorld

10 ways to query Hadoop with SQL

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 ...