SQL Query Store is a new feature offered in SQL Server 2016 that allows DBAs to see which queries ran when, how often and with what performance results to optimize queries and query plan selection.

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.

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

If you want to speed up your SQL Server queries you need to know how your application and your users actually use your database.

Microsoft has unveiled a preview of a C++-based vectorized query engine for the Azure Databricks cloud analytics and AI service based on Apache Spark. Azure Databricks, which is delivered in ...

The new time series engine is capable of responding to queries faster, supporting data analysis of massive database workloads.

Co-founded by Chairman and CEO Justin Borgman, Starburst is the fast-growing, Boston-based data access and analytics company based on the Presto open-source SQL query engine originally created by ...

Test figures published by social network Facebook are designed to show the results of a series of advances in the Presto open-source query engine, including a new ORC reader.

Voltron Data introduces Theseus, a powerful distributed query engine designed to accelerate large-scale data pipelines and queries, optimize data processing for AI workloads, and promote open ...

Trino is a highly parallel, open-source distributed SQL query engine designed to perform interactive analytics on large volumes of data.