Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Agarwal: We see three main classes of devices where Azure SQL Database Edge will run. The first is interactive embedded devices -- for example, the point-of-sale systems, smart scanners or ...

In an earlier column, I showed how to create a temporal table in SQL Server 2016 or Azure SQL Database. Once you've defined a temporal table, SQL Server automatically keeps a history of all the ...

Microsoft announced a preview of such a project that leverages SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) in Visual Studio for SQL Data Warehouse deployment. The cloud-based enterprise data warehouse is described ...