Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with ...

Description: Normalize the database to Second Normal Form (2NF). Second Normal Form (2NF) removes partial dependencies; this means that all non-key attributes are fully functionally dependent on the ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Microsoft SQL Server Machine Learning Services is a feature that allows you to run Python, R, Java, and other Machine Learning languages in-database, using open-source packages and frameworks for ...

Putting a database in Third Normal Form (3NF) is a crucial step in database design. This form eliminates data redundancy and inconsistencies, ensuring that data is stored in a structured and logical ...

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...