Prior to SQL Server 2017, query processing was a monolithic process. The SQL Server query optimizer would first construct a query plan for a batch of T-SQL code, a stored procedure, or function and ...

When you execute an SQL query, the results do not return quickly.You may have had no issues during development, but the ...

Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows. At almost 30 years of age, Microsoft's flagship database has learned ...

This chapter excerpt on Parallel SQL (download PDF) is taken from the book Oracle Performance Survival Guide: A Systematic Approach to Database Optimization. Get pertinent information on optimizing ...

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 ...