As I have described in another recent blog post, “What is structured data and its hold on DBAs about?” on this blog, structured data is here to stay, even as unstructured data becomes more prevalent a...
When you optimize a simple SQL statement, Quest SQL Optimizer may only generate a few SQL alternatives using the default settings in the Optimizer options. It is very likely that many more alternative...
Preparing data for analysis often means encountering some shortcomings within the data itself. Extra spaces, null values, blank values, wrong data types and duplicate values all stand in the way of pr...
