Abstract: The SQL specification consists of hundreds of statement types, which leads to difficulties in DBMS fuzzing: state-of-the-art works generally reuse the statements of predefined types; the ...

Always validate your requirements. We initially assumed teams needed gap-free IDs and strict global ordering, but after some uncomfortable conversations realized they could live without both. That ...

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Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. Simple, yes, but ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...