Among them: altering the back-end query (specifically by reconsidering the use of concatenation) or limiting user-supplied input to avoid bad-faith language. Here are a few examples: Use parameterized ...

SQL is a convenient way to manage and query your data, but badly written queries can tie up your database. Here are seven common SQL traps and how to avoid them.

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But ...

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It's not so much a black and white, SQL vs. NoSQL situation, of course: TokBox still kept SQL databases around. That's where his team fed portions of Hadoop output for analysts to query more easily.

Do you ever find yourself juggling queries to get the information you need? Subselects, also called subqueries, may be just what you’ve been looking for. This SQL feature allows you to query ...

However, there are any number of queries in any application that SQL Server may never see again (at least in, for example, the next 24 hours). The plans for these "one-time" queries are taking up ...