Knowing what you want from SQL Server is probably the biggest step toward running it successfully in business applications, according to consultant Koen Verbeeck. It's not just about knowing how SQL ...

A research-paper retrospective explains how separating query processing, logs, pages and storage changed the scaling behavior of Azure SQL Database.

Vogel ported Doom to run entirely inside a SQL database The port draws 640×480 full-color frames from about 1,300 lines of SQL Missing BSP-tree traversal in DoomQL prompted Vogel to start a second ...

Cloud-based systems have become the IT infrastructure of choice for many organizations, in all industries and of all sizes. Users can now choose from a seemingly endless array of cloud platforms, ...

I'm supposed to be a software developer/consultant. However, I'm also the guy people look at when the application isn't running "fast enough." With business applications, speeding up the application ...

Microsoft's Azure SQL Database is getting an expanded range of performance tiers, upping the Standard tier maximum DTUs to 3000. Storage add-ons are also available for the different tiers.

This template provides a baseline for evaluating enterprise DBA candidate’s skill set, ranging from application deployment support to database design.

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

We live in an era where AI writes programs for us.Using tools like Cloud Code or Codex, it has become easy to create processes that retrieve information from databases.However, just because a program ...

Before becoming a DBA, I didn't have a clear image of what database work involved.In my university research, I used C++, but ...