The parallel processing power of the GPU is being brought to analytics by some innovative startups, promising new levels of performance The SQL database dates back to the 1970s and has been an ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...

Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features that were implemented in SQL Server 2017, and expands them to new areas of the database engine.

Each developer must be trained in the skills of database programming, including SQL skills, set-at-at-time processing, and database optimization. The responsibility for assuring that developers have ...

Even if generative AI hides SQL behind the curtain, it will continue to play a critical role in how we interact with and use data.

Promising that developers can 'save weeks of development effort,' Microsoft today answered their request for database project support in Visual Studio to target Azure SQL Data Warehouse projects.

The evolution of Hadoop has brought on Spark, a new framework and API that builds on Hadoop's ecosystem but brings in-memory processing, SQL and streaming support to the table, among other things.

Materialize today announced the next generation of its distributed database to help enterprises mobilize streaming data with ease.