With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

memory_consumer_id bigint Internal ID for memory consumer. memory_consumer_type int An integer that represents the type of the memory consumer with one of the following values: 0 - Shouldn't be ...

Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. This DMV tracks how often indexes — including heap tables (which have index_id = 0) — are used ...

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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 ...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server offers granular database control and flexibility. Explore its features, pricing and more in our review. Pricing: Pay as you go model. Key features ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...