Why It Works for IT For Windows-oriented shops, SQL Server 2012 offers advantages over other databases from a management standpoint. Installation of SQL Server, despite the complexity of the software, ...

SQL Server has evolved from its humble beginnings as a relatively easy-to-use and less expensive database (compared with high-end commercial enterprise databases) for small-scale transactions and ...

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same ...

SQL Server configuration settings at the instance-level, database-level, and connection-level. Also be sure to catalog the sp_configure settings, as well as the sp_dboptions settings for the user ...

Joey on SQL Server How Microsoft Is Building the Biggest Cloud Database Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.

There's a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

The architecture and use cases of a NewSQL hybrid transactional-analytical, MySQL-compatible, horizontally scalable database ...