Delayed durability offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years-the ability to disable transaction logging. Why turn off the transaction log? You can accelerate ...

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

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...

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.