I wrote a query (with lots of help, see my painfully plentiful other threads) using a correlated subquery and it takes 5.78 seconds PER RECORD to return results. The SAME query, only I select the ...

I have what i think to be a relatively simple task and may just be having a "moment" I'm building a report and am pulling a bunch of data from our db. The table I'm builidng has 5 fields. I populate ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

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 ...