With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

Microsoft has made SQL Server 2025 generally available. The latest version of the database focuses on built-in AI ...

Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server 2025.

SQL Server performance is slow. Users are complaining. Your boss wants to know what's going on and what you can do to improve SQL Server performance. Where do you start? Which SQL Server query should ...

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 ...

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Often, designing databases and speeding up SQL Server queries are treated as a kind of abstract problem: A just "Find this problem, apply this solution" approach to problem solving. In practice, ...

I have been testing SQL Server 2008 RC0 (Release Candidate Zero) that was made available recently and I must admit I am beginning to like it. Even the new logo is growing on me. There are many new ...