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

Actian today made available an update to an embedded database that promises to increase SQL query ... results of that processing can then be shared more efficiently shared over limited WAN bandwidth.

One set of features that I really like focus on adaptive query processing. These new features speed processing of workloads ... functions (TVFs): In older releases, SQL Server was notorious for having ...