With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

REDMOND, Wash., July 26, 2004 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it would add support for the AMD Opteron (TM) with Direct Connect Architecture in Microsoft SQL Server (TM) 2005, the next generation of ...

Written by Sudarshan Roy, Senior Database Specialist Architect, AWS & Saleh Ghasemi, Senior Database Specialist Architect, AWS Data is one of the most valuable assets your company owns. Database ...

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When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.

These are the tools I depend on, both when establishing a new SQL Server or encountering one in the wild. Any significant application needs to store data and, although the cloud is becoming more ...

It's time to replace a SQL server, the lease is up soon. The databases are around 3-4 GB currently, just barely fitting in RAM on the current server. If I am planning on getting a server with plenty ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...