including the PAGEIOLATCH_EX wait type, are used to synchronize access to BUF structures and associated pages in the SQL Server database. The most frequently occurring buffer latching situation is ...

This month we conclude this mini-series with a look at creating and using your own custom data types for SQL Server 2005 using .NET. Custom datatypes are useful when you want to store certain ...

While SQL Server introduced support for JSON data in SQL Server 2016, it relied on using the non-optimized NVARCHAR(MAX) data type. While it worked, the functionality was limited, and performance ...

When would you save data in SQL Server as JSON? A relational database table is articulated on a fixed number of columns and each column has its own data type, such as strings of variable or fixed ...

In addition to the data type, Microsoft plans to add native JSON indexing across both Azure SQL and SQL Server, which should also help the performance of those JSON queries. There are a lot of ...