Abstract: Privacy-preserving collaborative data analysis is a popular research direction in recent years. Among all such analysis tasks, privacy-preserving SQL ...

This is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower performance and the fact you can see the SQL queries that ...

Consistent SQL practice across varied platforms builds real job-ready confidence. Guided lessons help beginners, while timed challenges sharpen interview performance. Real datasets improve practical ...

Every time someone orders food online, checks exam results, or streams a video, new data is created and saved. Behind these activities are large databases that store millions of records. These ...

One very common cause of Power BI performance problems is having a table with a large number of rows on your report. It’s a problem I wrote about here, and while I used an Import mode for my example ...

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In today’s competitive job market, securing a role in database management is difficult. SQL (Structured Query Language) remains a fundamental skill for database administrators, software developers, ...

Prequel is a SQL query engine built in C#. The goal of this project is to demonstrate how query engines are built, and to bring a query engine to the .NET community. The project contains a ...

At Microsoft Build 2025, we announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025. Built on a foundation of best-in-class security, performance, and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers customers to ...

Abstract: In the era of big data, the ability to process and analyze large volumes of data is critical for decision-making, marketing and sales, healthcare and scientific research, etc. However, this ...