I have a SQL 2008 box with about 1500 ... at this server was the sheer number of databases. I'm used to a couple dozen, max. I've never seen that many databases on a single box, but if you've ...

Before we can answer the follow-up question of do my users care, we need to first understand why having too many indexes is ... all zeros every time the SQL Server instance is restarted, so ...

But many still believe that, for all of SQL’s ease and accessibility, the price exacted in runtime performance is often too high. Before there was SQL, databases had tight, navigational ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...