Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. There are two ways to implement the Java Scanner import: explicitly reference the ...

The Storage API streams data in parallel directly from BigQuery via gRPC without using Google Cloud Storage as an intermediary. It has a number of advantages over using the previous export-based read ...

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PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

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Most software applications require persistence programming of some kind—but what exactly is it, and more importantly, are we doing it right? A few years ago, my team was working on a commercial Java ...

Microsoft continues our analysis of the remote code execution vulnerabilities related to Apache Log4j (a logging tool used in many Java-based applications) disclosed on 9 Dec 2021. Currently, ...

When you build a Power Apps canvas app there are many different data sources you can choose to use such as SharePoint, Microsoft Dataverse, SQL (on-premises), Azure SQL (online), Excel, and others ...

I recently published a tutorial describing the different available methods to store data locally in an Android app. However, due to article length constraints, I could not adequately cover creating ...