Whether you’re just getting in to programming or you’ve avoided learning SQL, it’s something every developer faces eventually. You may not be responsible for building and maintaining a database, but ...

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 ...

A new AI-based data “navigation” system is billed as the first analytics platform to use natural language processing to generate SQL queries from spoken requests. The result is a sort of virtual ...

RIGHT JOIN (or RIGHT OUTER JOIN): It’s the opposite of a LEFT JOIN. It keeps all rows from the right table and matches from the left. Less common than LEFT JOIN, but good to know it exists.

Large Language Models (LLMs) seem to be everywhere now. Chatbots, coding assistants and research all promise transformative efficiency. Yet too many businesses discover an inconvenient truth: asking ...

Microsoft has found a new use for natural language processing capabilities in machine learning large language models (LLMs): SQL queries. The company has set up a sandbox for developers and data pros ...

This extends even further outside of SQL, where the LLM is equipped to handle tasks for decision-making relating to time-series, graph, and spatial expertise. “Kinetica has led the market with ...

Ok, let's say I have three different queries that all return the same result set.<BR><BR>One uses a temp table, the other a correlated subquery, and the third is just a HUGE set of union queries, etc.