Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Introduced in SQL Server 2016, the query store is a data collection utility that captures data about query execution plans and runtime performance information, and stores them in the database for ...

If you’re using one of the Azure data­bases, you can take advantage of Query Performance Insight for many additional visualizations about the overall resource con­sumption of your Azure databases.

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Never shy to compare its services to its competitors, Microsoft also notes that Azure SQL Data Warehouse can support up to 128 concurrent queries now, compared to the 50 that Amazon Redshift is ...

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced Azure Synapse Link, a new enterprise service that allows businesses to analyze their data faster and more efficiently, using an ...

Further, Database Insights extends beyond SQL Server to provide some of the broadest database coverage available in the industry, managing the performance of more than 20 database platforms, from ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse "Gen 2": ... As a result, the company says it's observed an up-to-5x query performance improvement for certain workloads on SQL DW Gen 2 vs. Gen 1.

Also read: Azure SQL Data Warehouse "Gen 2": Microsoft's shot across Amazon's bow Between the IDM and the performance improvements due to SQL DW Gen2 storage and caching, Microsoft is getting very ...