SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of.

Apache Phoenix: Its developers call it a “SQL skin for HBase” — a way to query HBase with SQL-like commands via an embeddable JDBC driver built for high performance and read/write operations.

New tool from startup Vembu Technologies is designed to relieve DBAs of the need to port SQL queries.

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

Generative AI for enterprise queries If you’re serious about using generative AI to develop enterprise-grade queries, you might want to investigate tools like LangChain, a framework for working ...