Microsoft has made SQL Server 2025 generally available. The latest version of the database focuses on built-in AI ...

Check this tip to increase the 'min memory per query' option to improve the performance of queries that use hashing or sorting operations, if your SQL Server has a lot of memory available and there ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

“Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is often a much overlooked part of Business Intelligence projects,” explains Allan Mitchell, Microsoft SQL Server MVP. “In this ...

Everybody wants their databases to retrieve and store information faster, and with SQL Server 2014, which is released to manufacturing today, Microsoft is tweaking its columnar data store as well as ...

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

I've been doing a little google foo and coming up a bit short. I need a whitepaper that details what the SQL max memory should be set at in relation to the total amount of RAM on the server. I thought ...

Knowing exactly what in-memory OLTP tables are used for will help you make the most of one of SQL Server's newest features. While in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) tables may sound like a ...