You use the Database Engine Tuning Advisor to select and create an optimal set of indexes, indexed views, or table partitions without having an expert understanding of the database structure or the ...

Against this backdrop, Microsoft has quietly commenced its own seemingly impossible mission, a complete re-write of a little known database which will be released two years into the future, and will ...

Page servers are systems representing a scaled-out storage engine. Each page server is responsible for a subset of the pages in the database. Each page server also has a replica that is kept for ...

Another enhancement here is the Accelerated Database Recovery feature in SQL Server 2019, which makes the undo phase of recovery much faster. Each server uses an SSD-based cache using RBPEX on ...

General Purpose is a SQL MI architecture where compute layer (which runs the SQL Server Database Engine process and is being used for query processing & data caching) is separated from the storage ...

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...