With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced SQL Server Stretch Database in 2016, our guiding principles for such hybrid data storage solutions have always been affordability, security, and native Azure ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced adding WITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup ...

Abstract: Query language execution is widely used in big data. The SQL standard is the major query language. Big data has a lot of SQL-like tools, for example: Spark-SQL, Hive, Drill, and Presto. This ...

Unexpected shutdowns, hardware failures, or power losses can leave your SQL Server databases in a corrupted state—jeopardizing data integrity and causing costly downtime. Rather than scrambling for ...

- @OnlineOnly - 1 causes the script to use ONLINE=ON when performing the compress operation - @CompressionType - can be "PAGE" or "ROW" - @MinObjectSizeGB - the minimum current size of a table/index ...

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