Search Engine Land

ChatGPT Search gets ‘smarter’ and adds image-based queries

ChatGPT search now handles complex queries better, supports image prompts, and reduces repetition. But expect overly detailed replies. OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT’s built-in search capabilities to better ...
VentureBeat

Table-augmented generation shows promise for complex dataset querying, outperforms text-to-SQL

AI has transformed the way companies work and interact with data. A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information from large swathes of data. Today, all they ...
Redmond Magazine

Understanding Dirty Reads: What NOLOCK Does to Your Queries

Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it. As a consultant, I work on wide swaths of database systems, which means I get to see many, many SQL statements ...
Redmond Magazine

A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...
Search Engine Land

How Google uses NLP to better understand search queries, content

Learn the role that natural language processing plays in making Google search even more semantic and context-based. Natural language processing opened the door for semantic search on Google. SEOs need ...