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 ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

SuperSQL is an extension of SQL that allows formatting and publishing of database contents into various kinds of application data directly as a result of a query. Possible application data output ...

Query compilation and execution form the critical backbone of database systems, where high-level queries are translated into efficient low-level machine code and then executed to retrieve data.

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m not a DBA, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overseen databases and their performance. I was (and probably still am) the guy who installed a Microsoft SQL database by hitting Next ...

BlazingSQL builds on RAPIDS to distribute SQL query execution across GPU clusters, delivering the ETL for an all-GPU data science workflow. BlazingSQL is a GPU-accelerated SQL engine built on top of ...