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.

The three features of adaptive query processing can make SQL Server 2017 significantly faster at processing your workload. Not only that, but they also provide significant improvements without needing ...

With the latest public preview available, it's time to see if you want to upgrade to the most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far.

SQL Server 2016 offers a new tool for performance tuning called Query Store. This holds metrics that let you quickly see when an execution plan change has negatively impacted the database.

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client.

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year. Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The ...

Use saved queries as opposed to SQL statements as the data sources for Access objects. The wizard will create a corresponding SQL Server object for each saved query.