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 ...

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client. SQL Server ...