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 ...

This PostgreSQL extension provides a basic implementation of the Paxos algorithm in PL/pgSQL and basic table replication through Paxos. Warning: pg_paxos is in an early stage, consider it experimental ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

A seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in building complex distributed data-intensive backend services. DuckDB is an embedded SQL database engine. It's very similar to well-known ...

Race conditions can occur in a booking database when multiple users try to access and update shared data concurrently. Consider a simple booking database for a hotel, with the following tables: CREATE ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...