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A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

A road trip is only as good as its playlist. Maybe that seems a little dramatic, but a good queue of songs is key to making a road trip better. I’m driving to South Dakota in a couple of weeks, which ...

Have you ever struggled to make sense of a dataset with too many categories or time-based data? It’s a common challenge—how do you present individual contributions while still showing the bigger ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel is a powerful database management tool with all sorts of in-depth problem-solving functions and dynamic formatting. To make the most of it, though, you need to know the basics. Using ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...