Document databases such as MongoDB garnered rapid and strong support from application developers for multiple reasons. But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the ...

tl;dr - see last paragraph. CREATE TABLE [dbo].[AttachedFiles]( [ID] [uniqueidentifier] ROWGUIDCOL NOT NULL, [ReferenceLocation] [varchar](255) NOT NULL, [FileName ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.

For developers working with databases, having the right tools can make or break a project. IntelliJ IDEA database tools stand ...

As SQL development increasingly becomes part of full-stack workflows, developers are looking for ways to simplify their tooling without compromising capability. While SQL Server Management Studio ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...