SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features that were implemented in SQL Server 2017, and expands them to new areas of the database engine. Let's take a deeper dive into some ...

In SQL Server 2019, support for these devices is extended, namely for Intel Optane DC NV-DIMMs, on Windows Server 2019. This allows all database objects to be stored on persistent memory as normal ...

Over the years, SQL Server has lost mind share and market share to open source Linux-compatible databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, despite the fact that Microsoft makes available SQL Server ...

The DBA's role is becoming increasingly complex and now often involves managing data both on premise and in the cloud, and in a variety of database management systems including not only traditional ...

Microsoft has taken some steps toward this already—for example, the JDBC driver, used to access SQL Server from Java applications, was recently open sourced —but there's much more work to do ...

Microsoft SQL Server's relational engine has offered new instrumentation that improves by light years with each new release. The introduction of Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) in SQL Server 2005 ...

Coming full circle back to SQL Server 2017, Microsoft data watchers will recall that this release will be the first one to support the relational database engine running on both Windows and Linux ...