Ever since NoSQL burst onto the mainstream database world in the late 1990s there have been a group of people who have been saying that NoSQL is going to kill off the relational database engine. This ...

The next version of the Microsoft flagship database promises to add dynamic extensions to Azure and real time links between structured and unstructured data. The next release of Microsoft SQL Server ...

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Microsoft SQL Server's relational engine has offered new instrumentation that improves by light years with each new release. The introduction of Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) in SQL Server 2005 ...

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 ...

SQL Server isn't on the kind of update schedule that characterizes Visual Studio these days, when it's unusual for two months to go by without some sort of release. But one version is getting a new ...

Out of all the programming languages you need to learn in the IT industry, SQL is one of the most important. SQL is so integral to modern big data access and organization processes that it’s never a ...