Traditional database systems like Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MSSQL run on a symmetric multiprocessing architecture (SMP). SMP is a share-everything architecture. Multiple processors of equal ...

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 ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Time series data is a set of values organized in the order in which they occur and arrive for processing. Unlike transactional data in SQL Server, which is not ...

Exports the contents of a table, view, or query of a SQL Server database to an RFC 4180-compliant CSV file. This function supports the export of huge result sets by writing the contents of the CSV ...

This post was authored by Jos de Bruijn, Senior Program Manager, SQL Server. A release the magnitude of SQL Server 2016 deserves a new sample. AdventureWorks, which has been around since the SQL ...

Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about “No SQL” databases. In fact there are at least two conferences on the topic in 2009, one on each coast. Seemingly this buzz comes from people who are ...