An extent in SQL Server is comprised of 8 x 8KB pages, 64KB, and this is usually the unit of data allocation so if you have a table that’s larger than eight pages, any time we allocate space to that ...

Schema maintenance: It is very easy to create new Temporal Tables or extend existing non-Temporal Tables to become temporal system-versioned. SQL Server 2016 automatically creates an accompanying ...

The tool's Always Encrypted functionality was also improved, as described in another post published by Microsoft yesterday titled "Always Encrypted Assessment in SQL Server Management Studio 21." ...