A release the magnitude of SQL Server 2016 deserves a new sample. AdventureWorks, which has been around since the SQL Server 2005 days, has had a good run, but it is time for an upgrade. Wide World ...

An extended version of AdventureWorksDW2016 designed to showcase SQL Server 2016 features. To see the features in action, run the SQL Server 2016 sample scripts on this database.

In-Memory OLTP Performance Demo v1.0 illustrates the performance benefits of the In-Memory OLTP technology built into SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. IoT Smart Grid sample v1.0 illustrates how SQL ...

The Microsoft SQL Server database software (either SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005) is the relational database management system (RDBMS) of choice for deploying secure, reliable, highly ...

A few months ago a new option was added to the Sql.Database and Sql.Databases functions in Power Query in Power BI and Excel which allows Power Query queries that combine data from different SQL ...

Automatic Tuning: While many database vendors have claimed to have self -tuning databases in the past, Microsoft has built intelligence into a set of self-tuning features in SQL Server 2017.

With SQL Server 2005 many things have been changed. In earlier versions in order to make it work, SQL Mail relied on having a MAPI mail client installed like Outlook. This has changed with SQL Server ...