Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...

One reoccurring SQL Server question that I see: Why is my TempDB database so large and what can I go to reduce the size of TempDB? The answer requires some basic understanding of the internals of how ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

If you haven’t been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called “containers.” While there are many specific ...

At the Ignite conference today, Microsoft made a series of announcements about Azure databases. It announced a brand-new Azure database called HorizonDB, which is a fully managed PostgreSQL database ...

Maybe you are still getting up-to-speed with the whole concept of cloud computing. If so, I have a lot of sympathy for you because there is so much to learn and because cloud technologies advance so ...

After the pushing through the first release candidate for SQL Server 2019 in August, and its refresh just a few days later, Microsoft announced general availability for the database management system ...

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Microsoft believes artificial intelligence is so powerful it should be "democratized" so organizations and developers of all types can use it to transform and improve their business practices. In fact ...