The program only generates a T-SQL script; it does not make any changes to the database structure or data directly when run. Print statements are included throughout the script to display a log of ...

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.

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 ...

Within SQL Server, temporary tables are stored in the Temporary Tables folder of the tempdb database. How are transactions used? Transactions allow you to group SQL commands into a single unit.

In the financial area we face the prospect of having to access and report on data housed on multiple systems of record, to include IMS, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and even legacy-based systems ...

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.

I have a need to compare multiple different versions of essentially the same SQL Server 2005+ databases and bring the table structures up to that which is in the newest version. It should compare ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Here's a quick tip. Written by Arthur Fuller, Contributor March 4, 2004 at 12:45 a.m. PT ...