Snowflake's Horizon Context and Cortex Sense give agents a shared definition of business logic, targeting hybrid retrieval ...

An attack technique that leverages an unprotected web server as a proxy for attackers to send commands through to other computers. "OWASP server-side request forgery" on the Word Notes podcast.

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

See Configuring Claude Desktop / Claude Code for examples. A comprehensive Microsoft SQL Server client implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This server provides extensive SQL Server ...

Abstract: SQL language is a non-procedural language with the defined statements and available clauses. Many times, conditions and format of the output depend on the functions. In this paper, Oracle ...

With most Excel spreadsheets, you enter data manually into cells and then use formulas or other functions to analyze it or perform calculations. If you have a large data source, such as an Access ...

In “How SQL can unify access to APIs” I made the case for SQL as a common environment in which to reason about data flowing from many different APIs. The key enabler of that scenario is Steampipe, a ...

Although tables in SQL databases typically contain massive amounts of data, they’re not always in a format that can be used by data analysts. The data records in these tables need to be filtered ...