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 ...

Update: Microsoft released SQL Server 2019 CU8 with a fix for the reliability issue that impacted SQL Server 2019 CU7. Microsoft pulled the Cumulative Update package 7 (CU7) for SQL Server 2019 ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Hi all,<BR><BR>I have what i think to be a relatively simple task and may just be having a "moment" I'm building a report and am pulling a bunch of data from our db.<BR><BR>The table I'm builidng has ...

Change Event Streaming (CES) in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL enables event-driven architectures by streaming JSON records from table activity to Azure Event Hub, with Entra support now available in ...

With CU5, Microsoft has focused on key capabilities to the SQL Server, along with Big Data Clusters. One of the main improvements is deployment for BDC on the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes platform.