The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Almost every agency business function relies on at least one database. These range from ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...