In SQL Server, updates and inserts are processed initially into a B-tree table called a delta store. Eventually, a process called a tuple mover compresses the data into the columnstore structure.

Defining Managed SQL Services Managed SQL services are cloud-based solutions that give users access to SQL databases without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. This means the service ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database. In part one of this article, I described a ...

PAGEIOLATCH_*—Buffer latches, including the PAGEIOLATCH_EX wait type, are used to synchronize access to BUF structures and associated pages in the SQL Server database. The most frequently occurring ...

With SQL databases, all data has an inherent structure. A conventional database like Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle Database uses a schema—a formal definition of how data ...

It supports various databases such as MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL ... It offers a range of features which include a database structure viewer, SQL query editor with syntax editing ...

Ideally, this data type would come with some dedicated indexing structures, the way SQL Server has XML indexes, allowing faster queries against large volumes of JSON data. One of the challenges ...

In other words, despite the fact that the motivation for SQL was to use standardized declarative queries, in the real world you see lots of database-specific procedural server programming.

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Use this quick tip from Arthur Fuller to show you how. Sometimes your application needs to know the specific directory ...