Postcodes are just text values. How does Power BI know where each postcode is on a map? It does so by geocoding: sending each ...

At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas developer conference, SQL expert Denny Cherry will share essential indexing ...

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

DuckDB has recently introduced end-to-end interaction with Iceberg REST Catalogs directly within a browser tab, requiring no ...

Unplugged Performance, known for its performance products enhancing Tesla EVs, showcased "The Red Rocket." The refreshed Tesla Model 3 Performance demonstrator is equipped with UP's full upgrade ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a spinning wheel, waiting for your Power Query to refresh, only to wonder if there’s a better way? For anyone working with large datasets, refresh delays aren’t ...

Abstract: In recent years, the integration of natural language processing (NLP) with database querying has led to the emergence of Text-to-SQL systems, which enable nontechnical users to interact with ...

At Microsoft Build 2025, we announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025. Built on a foundation of best-in-class security, performance, and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers customers to ...

It’s not uncommon for a laptop to lose some of its pep over time. The good news is that there is often something you can do about it — whether that means updating drivers, goosing the processor ...

M.Sc. C.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia; MCSA – Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (C#, ASP.NET MVC); CodeProject MVP (x2 years); C#-Corner MVP (x3 years ...

Existing index tuners typically rely on the “what if” API provided by the query optimizer to estimate the execution cost of a query on top of an index configuration. Such cost estimates can be ...