With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

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Mermaid.js should add a syntex that allow directly linking a certain foreign key column with another table's PK. When the number of tables increases, it becomes harder to immediately tell which ...

SQLGlot supports the full CREATE TABLE syntax for temporal tables, but there's some cases missing around the ALTER TABLE syntax to add them after-the-fact. I've included code to create and clean up ...

The primary key column is often set to auto-increment when constructing a SQL Server database. To achieve this, the IDENTITY property is enabled on the primary key column. The starting value and ...

In the world of data management, small businesses often face a critical decision: should they use spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, or should they invest in a more complex database ...

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Microsoft Excel is arguably the greatest spreadsheet application from Redmond, and there’s a good reason so many number crunchers use it for all of their number crunching needs. While using Microsoft ...