Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems.

SQL Server 2012 then borrowed this columnar processing technique for its own use. As an example of how the new SQL Server could speed performance, Kelly explained how a retail chain could benefit ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder.