And that's where SQL Server's In-Memory OLTP (online transaction processing) tables come in. In memory OLTP tables (I'll just call them memory-optimized tables from here on) were introduced in SQL ...

This strategy helps you manage interrelated tables in your database. Click the Start button and launch the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Click the Server Name menu and choose your server ...

Keep your MDB file intact, but link to the server tables from inside the MDB. Doing so will use an ODBC link to the newly upsized tables on SQL Server. The resulting arrangement is slower than the ...

A public preview of SQL Server 2025 adds new vector capabilities already found in rival databases, along with JSON support ...

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

SQL Server Enterprise offers “partitioning,” which allows you to split database tables into multiple partitions. If you have a table you’re constantly archiving into another table ...

inserting and updating data into a table. To summarize the difference between the way SQL Server has traditionally taken locks and optimized locking, I'll defer to my MVP colleague Aaron Bertrand ...

take a look at the below table: This example uses an 8-core server running SQL Server Enterprise Edition. PAYG billing has lower upfront cost. The point where core-based licensing provides a cost ...

Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us. SQL Server lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table. For example ...