Joey on SQL Server. SQL Server vNext: When and What Is Coming. Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't.

Since SQL Server is in the business of returning your query results and not throwing errors, it uses TempDB to complete the operation. You can see this in Figure 1 .

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SQL Server has an optimizer that usually does a great job of optimizing code for the most effective execution. A query execution plan is the breakdown of how the optimizer will run (or ran) a query.

A business object written with an SQL pass-through has the database server do more record processing. With a pass-through, the server does the subtotals and sends fewer records back to the object.

To do it via PowerShell, you'll need your Azure SQL database server name. To get this, you can use the Get-AzureSqlDatabaseServer cmdlet. You can see here that I have a single server called ...

About 5,500 of the SQL Server faithful came out for the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle last November. As usual, the event had the feel of a great big family reunion. It's always a fun time, with lots of ...