Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

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

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 ...

Non-clustered index corruption leads to incorrect reading of the SQL database query or multiple read operations on the same value. SQL database in suspect mode: SQL database suspect mode is a frequent ...

One-of-a-kind database for operational analytics analyzes gigabytes to terabytes of recent, real-time, and streaming data in milliseconds There are, or were, two kinds of SQL database ...

Indexing is a critical part of database optimization. Indexing can dramatically increase query speed. However, DBAs still struggle with finding optimal indexes or optimal SQL plans. DBTA held a ...