Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies ...

SQL Server has an optimizer that usually does a great job of optimizing code for the most effective execution. A query execution plan is the breakdown of how the optimizer will run (or ran) a query.

SQL Server, SQL Azure and SQL DW [Data Warehouse] all share the same development branch. We have feature switches (like trace flags) that control what capabilities are enabled in a given product.

Business Intelligence Development Services is a major environment for developing business solutions, which includes projects related to Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services.

Visual Studio 11 Beta: Easier Development with LocalDB Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started ...

However, one big holdup is that for my day job, I run Visual Studio 2019, SQL Server, and IIS in Windows via Parallels.

Microsoft isn't open sourcing SQL Server's code, but making it run-able on Linux is a big change for the company. Microsoft has long offered a Mac version of its Office suite and has recently ...

Microsoft's SQL Server business has hit the $5 billion mark in terms of annual revenue and is growing like gangbusters, according to CEO Satya Nadella. But licensing experts believe this stunning ...

SQL Server 2016 offers a new tool for performance tuning called Query Store. This holds metrics that let you quickly see when an execution plan change has negatively impacted the database.

The system he was documenting was built on PL/SQL, Oracle Database, and Oracle Forms and Reports, so he began studying PL/SQL every morning at 4 a.m. with the goal of becoming a developer.