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.

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

PAGEIOLATCH_* —Buffer latches, including the PAGEIOLATCH_EX wait type, are used to synchronize access to BUF structures and associated pages in the SQL Server database. The most frequently occurring ...

The corresponding column type is NVARCHAR or NCHAR. If 'N' is not added, SQL Server will process the string using non-Unicode encoding, which may result in character loss, index failures, and data ...

In relational databases, VARCHAR is one of the most commonly used string data ... SQL Server distinguishes between character types using VARCHAR (non-Unicode) and NVARCHAR (Unicode), while ...

Conclusion You cannot directly map a java.sql.Blob field type in CMP entity bean to BLOB data type in database and use byte [] to manipulate BLOB data type. You have to remember that this is not an ...