Some features specifically use telemetry as part of the feature. One cool example in SQL Azure is that we can recommend, create and validate indexes for your application automatically.

Global software house Microsoft is making big data the focus of SQL Server 2019, set for release later this year. A key part is data virtualisation, eliminating complex ETL processes.

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

SQL is not confined to the traditional relational database systems (RDBMS) and data warehousing solutions. SQL-on-Hadoop engines run on top of distributed file systems to help process big data and ...

The server-side tracing component, SQL Trace, is more closely integrated with SQL Server engines than it was in SQL Server 7.0. Now it can, for example, write to native server-side files directly ...

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client.

I sat down for a two-part interview with Conor Cunningham, partner architect for SQL Server/Azure SQL at Microsoft, to talk about telemetry and how it is used to improve the product. In Part 1, we ...