Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Once you've identified the long-running queries, you can start the troubleshooting process. Using Extended Events Extended Events is a tracing feature built into the SQL Server database engine ...

BlazingSQL builds on RAPIDS to distribute SQL query execution across GPU clusters, delivering the ETL for an all-GPU data science workflow. BlazingSQL is a GPU-accelerated SQL engine built on top ...

Originally, the SuperSQL query is directly converted into a single SQL query. ... To minimize the execution time and memory consumption, query decomposition, the process of dividing a query into ...

Query Compilation: The process of translating a high-level database query into optimised machine code. Query Execution: The phase where the compiled machine code is run on the database to retrieve ...