The upgrade to the new CE in SQL Server 2014 ... I wrote a column on the introduction of query store hints into Azure SQL Database. This functionality allows a DBA to add a query hint (i.e ...

Equally obviously, an index on the Gender column would be a terrible index to use to find male drivers because it would return virtually the whole table -- SQL Server would be better off just to scan ...

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 ...