An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

— Today at the 2004 Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft Corp. extended its comprehensive data platform by demonstrating new business ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic ...

CA has released a new version of a data modeling tool called ERwin Data Modeler r7.2. It's part of a suite that CA offers for design and modeling using relational databases, particularly Microsoft SQL ...