The process of query optimization is very computationally expensive. For this reason, SQL Server stores execution ... I used a demo provided by Bob Ward, from Microsoft, to test out the ...

The next release of Microsoft SQL Server, announced as SQL Server 2017 ... when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the ...

Today, Microsoft ... query optimization and query performance execution to improve workload performance and reduce troubleshooting. To increase uptime and improve concurrency and scale for SQL ...

A public preview of SQL Server 2025 adds new vector capabilities already found in rival databases, along with JSON support ...

Parameter sensitive plan optimization looks for non-uniform data distributions like that and tells SQL Server ... speed up queries without rewriting them. That’s the promise that Microsoft ...

At Microsoft ... performance side, SQL Server 2022 adds support for multi-write replication, creating corresponding multiple read replicas. This facilitates SQL Server Query Store's enablement ...

Simply join two SELECT statements with the UNION keyword to combine the results of two queries into a new table. When working with databases other than Microsoft's SQL Server, check the manual to ...

In this two-part series, I'll tell you about some improvements Microsoft is making in SQL Server 2022 to improve cardinality estimates and deal with another common query optimization concern ...