I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

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This whitepaper illustrates the SQL Server 2016 business intelligence/data warehouse upgrades, the memory-optimized tables, and the columnstore indexes. We also discuss the performance comparison of ...

Billed as “Microsoft’s cloud first data platform,” SQL Server 2014 will be released to manufacturing this week, with general availability scheduled for April 1, 2014. SQL Server 2014’s biggest new ...

SQL Server 2014 provides a comprehensive high-end database solution that can meet the emerging demands of the businesses and enterprises alike. It marks the release of Microsoft’s flagship database ...

More details are emerging about in-memory capabilities in the new SQL Server 2014, announced at the recent TechEd 2013 conference. The first Community Technology Preview is expected to be released ...

New in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) improvements highlight the new features in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2016, the flagship RDBMS from Microsoft. SQL ...

On Wednesday Microsoft announced the release of SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2). SQL Server 2014 was announced a few months ago. It continues much of the technologies of SQL ...