SQL Server has evolved from its humble beginnings as a relatively easy-to-use and less expensive database (compared with high-end commercial enterprise databases) for small-scale transactions and ...

SQL Server has evolved from its humble beginnings as a relatively easy-to-use and less expensive database (compared with high-end commercial enterprise databases) for small-scale transactions and ...

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same ...

In the same way, they may not be certain about how the SQL Server instance-wide configuration settings, tempdb configuration, user database settings, or the exact transactions running during the ...

Page servers are a key element of this scale-out architecture. Each page server stores a subset of the data in your database, which is somewhere between 128GB and 1TB.

SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) persists flexible Entity sets in specially customized, clustered SQL Server 2008 instances running under Windows Server 2008 on commodity servers in Microsoft's ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

As a TiDB user, you can scale your stateless SQL server or TiSpark layer (i.e. your compute resources) out or in independently of scaling TiKV (i.e. your storage capacity), allowing you to make ...

When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...