In-memory database technology for SQL Server has long been in the works under the code name “Hekaton.” To use it, a database must have certain tables (actually, the file groups used to store ...

I created a copy of the database on the remote server and generated a SQL script to TRUNCATE all the tables in the copy database as shown in Listing 1. After a quick backup of the newly cleaned ...

Within SQL Server, temporary tables are stored in the Temporary Tables folder of the tempdb database. Transactions allow you to group SQL commands into a single unit. The transaction begins with a ...

Live! 360 talks about the "best and worst practices for indexing tables within your SQL Server 2000-2016 database." What is the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing any IT pro can do when it comes to ...

it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven’t heard of temporal data values (or for some, “bitemporal”), here is a brief explanation. When querying a ...

Doing so will use an ODBC link to the newly upsized tables on SQL Server. The resulting arrangement is slower than the previous one. Upsize data to SQL Server by creating an entirely new database ...

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

A few quick examples for comparison are temporal tables and graph databases -- both are native solutions out of the box in SQL Server and all flavors of Azure SQL. In PostgreSQL, you must install ...

The choice of how to clear the table is made in part on the security permissions of the user's database connection. This utility is meant to be used by a developer or database administrator with ...