SQL Server clustered columnstore does not have bad write performance, measured on Azure SQL Database using ExoBench. Bulk inserting 1M rows ran faster on columnstore than rowstore (3.3s vs 6.1s).

Companies are spending enormous sums of money on AI systems, and we are now at a point where there are credible alternatives to Nvidia GPUs as the compute engines within these systems. Given the ...

Delivering on performance promises made during its November launch, Microsoft has formally released Native Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) support for Windows Server 2025. This architectural ...

Snowflake has thousands of enterprise customers who use the company's data and AI technologies. Though many issues with generative AI are solved, there is still lots of room for improvement. Two such ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

In today's data-driven landscape, choosing the right database engine is crucial for enterprise application success. With large datasets and high-traffic demands, a suboptimal database engine can lead ...

DWABench is a real-world Windows based benchmarking tool that evaluates computer's hardware capabilities in regards of WebApi like workloads and SQL database like workloads. It tests not only your CPU ...

Microsoft, which developed silicon for Xbox two decades ago and later co-designed chips for Surface devices, has unveiled two custom chips: Azure Maia for artificial intelligence (AI) servers and ...

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

Medical artificial intelligence (AI) has tremendous potential to advance healthcare by supporting and contributing to the evidence-based practice of medicine, personalizing patient treatment, reducing ...