The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

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SQL Server is one of the best products to come out of Microsoft, but not every professional knows how to use it effectively. For example, some might find it difficult to create a stored procedure but ...

Microsoft SQL is a relational database you can configure to run as multiple copies, or instances, on a single computer. When running a small business, keeping multiple instances of Microsoft SQL on a ...

How to create a VBA procedure that closes all open workbooks in Excel Your email has been sent Some of us work with several Microsoft Excel workbooks open at the same time. Either we open them and ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...

drop procedure if exists `sccmcity`.`CHECK_INDEX`; create procedure `sccmcity`.`CHECK_INDEX`(in V_Y int, in V_W int, in V_ORG_CODE varchar(20), in V_CLIENT_CODE varchar(20), in V_RETAIL_CODE ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...