First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it. As a consultant, I work on wide swaths of database systems, which means I get to see many, many SQL statements ...

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client. SQL Server ...

Enterprises can now bring existing SQL Server licenses to Amazon RDS, making it easier to move operational data closer to AWS ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...