With all the cheerleading and the steady drumbeat of new features being released to Azure, it’s easy to lose track of the many cool and valuable new features released in the on-premises version of SQL ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

Cardinality is a database attribute. As business databases grow larger -- often with more than a billion entries -- they require more sophisticated algorithms for database management to remain ...

InfluxData, the creator of the time series platform InfluxDB, is unveiling InfluxDB Clustered, the self-managed iteration of the company’s time series database for on-premises or private cloud ...

Query engines are really good at choosing an efficient query plan. Users do not need to worry about how they write their query, since the optimizer makes all the right choices for executing the query ...