The quality of that query plan is wholly dependent on the quality of the cardinality estimates (i.e., an estimate of the number of rows of data involved in an operation), the order of the operations, ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2025 is introducing AI-native capabilities alongside new approaches for secure integration with large language models. Enterprises can now run local AI models such as Llama 3 via Ollama for ...

Citing advantages over the SQLite and Core Data databases commonly used in iOS and Android apps, Realm today launched version 1.0 of its namesake "mobile-first database." Realm 1.0 uses native objects ...

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There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...