Without a doubt, Ken Henderson's The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals is one of those sources. Henderson breaks the book down into four sections. The first section provides a ...

SQL Server 2012 introduces a lot of new features which, like the columnstore indexes I discussed last month, are inspiring a lot of excitement in the user community. However, there’s been a bit of ...

This book is designed for the system or database administrator, IT manager, and IT professional working with SQL Server because it covers four main topic areas: technologies and architecture ...

The Always Encrypted feature for Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 is now generally available, the company said. It keeps data encrypted at all times, showing it in plaintext ...