SQL Server 2016 announced as SQL Server 2005 support nears its end

For those of you still using SQL Server 2005, Microsoft will completely end support on April 12th 2016. You can head over here to check out upgrade guidelines, download migration tools, and read more ...
Redmond Magazine

SQL Server 2014 Hits Metal, Release Set for April 1

SQL Server 2014 hit its "release-to-manufacturing" milestone today, with Microsoft projecting an April 1 commercial release. The new relational database management system refines technologies ...
Ars Technica

SQL / set theory puzzle

Maxer's latest thread reminded me of a problem I came across awhile ago but never solved. Let's say I have a set of items, a strict ordering of them, and a constraint that some subsets are mutually ...
InfoWorld

How to use GPT as a natural language to SQL query engine

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...