There's a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

SQL Server configuration settings at the instance-level, database-level, and connection-level. Also be sure to catalog the sp_configure settings, as well as the sp_dboptions settings for the user ...

When and how to migrate data from SQL to NoSQL are matters of much debate. It can certainly be a daunting task, but when your SQL systems hit architectural limits or your cloud provider expenses ...

06/23/2008 SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) persists flexible Entity sets in specially customized, clustered SQL Server 2008 instances running under Windows Server 2008 on commodity servers in ...

Joey on SQL Server How Microsoft Is Building the Biggest Cloud Database Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.

A cloud data base management system is a database management system for management of cloud data and provides delivery of computing as services rather than as product.

SQL Server has evolved from its humble beginnings as a relatively easy-to-use and less expensive database (compared with high-end commercial enterprise databases) for small-scale transactions and ...