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For reference, Indeed.com reports that as of 2022, the volume of job listings for conventional SQL databases—MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, and so on—remains higher than the ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data ...

Here are the individual reviews. Microsoft SQL Server Express 2012 SQL Server Express is a free version of Microsoft’s flagship database, SQL Server.

About the Author Joseph D'Antoni is an Architect and SQL Server MVP with over two decades of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems ...

The Microsoft SQL Server database software (either SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005) is the relational database management system (RDBMS) of choice for deploying secure, reliable, highly ...

Consistency means that no matter which database server you ask, you'll get the same value no matter who's asking or when. ACID, though, doesn't matter much when you're just reading data for analysis.

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Here's a quick tip. Written by Arthur Fuller, Contributor March 4, 2004 at 12:45 a.m. PT ...