Could you please explain the differences between a database engineer, a database architect and a database administrator? Great question! It can get pretty confusing as these titles (and many more ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

SQL Server 2000 consists of numerous components that interact to provide complete database application capabilities, including relational database management, OLAP, data mining, full-text indexing, ...

A research-paper retrospective explains how separating query processing, logs, pages and storage changed the scaling behavior of Azure SQL Database.

Introduction: The Calm Before the 'Dashboard is Obsolete' Storm'They say if you use Snowflake's Cortex, you can just ask ...

In recent releases of SQL Server, Microsoft has delivered a great deal of feature enhancements and performance improvements. This rapid delivery has been facilitated by some development changes at ...

In the second part of this interview with Microsoft partner architect Conor Cunningham, we talk about Microsoft's use of telemetry to improve SQL Server and Azure SQL. We also discuss the changes the ...