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. Database ...

Most Android apps will need to persist user data at sometime. There are different ways to store user data, but SQLite databases are a very convenient and speedy method of saving user (or app) data and ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. As cloud storage becomes more common, data security is an increasing concern ...

One Identity Safeguard allows organizations to manage, monitor, record and audit administrators’ access to Microsoft SQL Server 2017. SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database Real-time and historical ...

With connectors in Power Apps we can collect 2000 items at a time when we read data from lists and libraries. However with SQL Stored Procedures in Power Apps we have an option to avoid this limit!

To offer more Big Data analytics capabilities across its data-based ecosystem, Microsoft is updating various data platform components. Among a bevy of products and services receiving updates are key ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...