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A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

VeriEQL, a new tool developed by researchers in SFU’s School of Computing Science and collaborators at the University of Michigan, enhances the semantics equivalence verification of complex SQL ...

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Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...