Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL Server 2019 and SQL Server Big Data Clusters at its Ignite conference on Monday. SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features ...

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

SQL Server 2022 is nearing a public preview release, Microsoft announced on Monday. An Early Adoption Program for SQL Server 2022, which had offered a private preview of Microsoft's coming new ...

SQL Server 2019 has inched slowly towards an official launch, with a Release Candidate released back in August with a refreshed build pushed out a bit more than a week later. Today, Microsoft has ...

In early November 2021, Microsoft announced the private preview of its flagship database product, SQL Server 2022. (You can read the full announcement blog post at ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "From the very beginning, the vision [for SQL Server] really was about -- databases were very complex -- how do you make that ...

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...