Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever ...

Data security provider Druva Inc. today announced expanded support for Microsoft Azure, including cloud-native data ...

One element that was particularly interesting and the top of many conversations afterwards was the day two keynote covering a new offering in public preview called Azure SQL Database Hyperscale ...

BR><BR>Next, consider a cross-database query which is betweeen <B>A</B>.OpStore.Tbl and B.MasterStore.Tbl. We expect that to be slower than the baseline, but by how much? <BR><BR>From a SQL ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep ... given that there's only 3,500 available now. Another query on the Orders table shows that you have, in fact, ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep ... you must be aware that a bare date (like "2017-10-31" in my sample query) includes a time: It's midnight in the ...

Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database ...