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 ...

Redgate, the Database DevOps solutions provider, is launching upgrades to its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, strengthening its query tuning and optimization functions to facilitate enhanced ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

Overview: SQL developers manage structured databases that power payments, healthcare, retail, and cloud systems.Cloud ...

While I am a general Linux admin, I have never administered or used PostgreSQL, although I do admin a few MySQL instances. I have just been told that a system currently hosted on SQL Server 2008 R2 is ...

There is one commonality amongst all these professionals: no one has time to spare. Everyone wants to streamline processes and solve problems as quickly as possible and move on to the next issue of ...

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. SQL Server ...

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of. SQL Server 2016 provides ...

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 ...