Data warehousing and analytic workloads can greatly benefit from columnstore indexes as well as traditional rowstore indexes. The choice of which rowstore and columnstore indexes to build for your ...

Structured: Stored in predefined formats like rows and columns with consistent schema enforcement. Unstructured: Exists in diverse formats like free text, images, audio, video, and documents that lack ...

The riders in the Tour de France are probably the most monitored athletes in the world. In preparation for the race, every ounce of food a rider consumes is specially formulated to give him maximum ...

Automatic tuning will be turned on by default for the SQL Database service running in the Microsoft Azure cloud, starting early next year. Though it's been available since early last year, automatic ...

This can't be right, I ran it against a trace I captured (tuning profile) and while it said:<BR><I><BR>TITLE: DTAEngine<BR>-----<BR><BR>44% of consumed workload has syntax errors. Check tuning log for ...

Microsoft on Thursday released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for SQL Server 2008. The new service pack arrives about one year after the release of Service Pack 2. SP3 contains a lot of fixes to the earlier ...