Why: Learn how the SQL Server engine works, and what knobs you can turn to improve performance. Find out more about Live! 360 taking place Nov. 17-22 at Universal Orlando ...

If you've used Azure in the past, you probably know that there are two main ways to deploy SQL Server on Microsoft's cloud—Azure SQL Database, the PaaS offering; and Azure VMs running SQL Server.

Using a server in those days meant that your database server could share work between the two available CPUs. But the application had to be built especially for SMP architectures. Since Microsoft had ...

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational cloud database service that provides broad SQL Server engine compatibility and allows you to dynamically scale database resources up and down ...

Microsoft is readying SQL Server 2019 for release, with enhancements to help users combine structured and unstructured data, leverage data virtualization across a wider range of sources, and more.

Thanks to SQLOS, the core SQL Server engine doesn't actually depend on Windows very much. ... To be truly credible as a Linux database, there's more work than just porting SQL Server itself.