“SQL on everything” is the tagline associated with Presto, the query engine that was initially developed by Facebook to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data — particularly data that lay scattered ...

Often, designing databases and speeding up SQL Server queries are treated as a kind of abstract problem: A just "Find this problem, apply this solution" approach to problem solving. In practice, ...

Thanks to the cloud, the amount of data being generated and stored has exploded in scale and volume. Every aspect of the enterprise is being instrumented for data, so new operations are built based on ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

How It Used To Be Prior to SQL Server 2017, query processing was a monolithic process. The SQL Server query optimizer would first construct a query plan for a batch of T-SQL code, a stored procedure, ...

GraphQL gives developers a flexible and unified way to connect data and services. Its query planning and policy engine make it a promising option for adding LLMs to the mix. Despite the complexity, ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

Google has overhauled Firestore Enterprise edition's query engine, adding Pipeline operations that let developers chain together multiple query stages for complex aggregations, array operations, and ...