The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...

Delayed durability offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years-the ability to disable transaction logging. Why turn off the transaction log? You can accelerate ...

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

SQL Server, of course, keeps track of everything that affects data in a transaction log, which is periodically rolled over into backup files (at least, if you're being a conscientious DBA it is ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...

During the PASS Summit 2012, a technical conference for SQL Server professionals, Microsoft announced Hekaton, an in-memory row-based data management system targeted at transaction processing (TP ...

SQLNitro was recently clocked with a roundtrip speed of 206 milliseconds between traders in Korea and an SQL Server in Exeter, NH. The transaction was 31% faster than any previous test done by the ...

Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team.

SQL Server, of course, keeps track of everything that affects data in a transaction log, which is periodically rolled over into backup files (at least, if you're being a conscientious DBA it is). But ...