The next release of Microsoft SQL Server, announced as SQL Server 2017, is available for download in CTP2 at http://tinyurl.com/SQLvNextLinux and offers many cool new ...

The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems.

Announcing SQL Server 2025—empowering customers to develop modern AI applications securely using their data, complete with ...

This forward-looking approach to OLTP performance optimization redefines what's possible in modern enterprise systems.

In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft also added the ... guesses to determine the best way to retrieve data for a given query. This process is very complex -- the stuff of graduate-level computer science ...

For comparison, the equivalent SQL query to return all of the students ... ELSE conditions, cursors (row-by-row processing of a set), expressions, temporary tables, and a whole host of other ...

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 ...

After the user selects an analytic engine and a file system, Teradata software seamlessly orchestrates analytic processing across systems with a single SQL query, without moving the data.

The process of query optimization is very computationally expensive. For this reason, SQL Server stores execution plans in a cache (called the plan cache), so that the stored execution plan is ...