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.

To help you to write SQL statements for Configuration Manager reports, you can use the query design tool found in SQL Server Management Studio. For some administrators, it is much easier to use Query ...

Some SQL Server features are good, some are great -- and some are great only in the right situations and in the right hands. In a preview of what's coming in her Live!360 session, Lopez recently ...

Need to use raw SQL with JPA and JPA? The Jakarta Persistence API's NativeQuery interface makes it possible to use Hibernate, SQL and JPA together in the same app.

SQL Server 2012 PDW has a feature called PolyBase, that enables you to integrate Hadoop data with PDW data. By using PDW with PolyBase capabilities, a user can: Use an external table to define a table ...