In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

Microsoft has made SQL Server 2025 generally available. The latest version of the database focuses on built-in AI ...

Microsoft is integrating AI features directly into SQL Server for the first time. The new version also brings JSON support ...

• The project is to develop an SQL query processor with JAVA and JAVACC. • The application can parse the SQL string, execute the query with data files and return the query result. • Developed query ...

I'm on a project that inherited some old generalized metadata search code and it can get terribly bogged down speed-wise. It's a bit annoying wait a couple minutes for a search to run: an example ...

Often, designing databases and speeding up SQL Server queries are treated as a kind of abstract problem: A just "Find this problem, apply this solution" approach to problem solving. In practice, ...

Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

SuperSQL is an extension of SQL that allows formatting and publishing of database contents into various kinds of application data directly as a result of a query. Possible application data output ...

(You can also use a query hint to force SQL Server to use the columnstore index). Columnstore index usage will show up in the query execution plan, just like any other type of index. Columnstore ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...