First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...
Listening in to Dr. Michael Stonebraker decry "elephants" and extol the virtues of column-store databases in general and Vertica in particular, it's becoming clear that a totally new data storage ...
Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...