Many small businesses use databases to hold customer data, such as addresses and contact numbers, or financial information such as banking records. SQL, or Structured Query Language, is used to ...

OK, while I'm really bad about approving comments (mostly because the platform makes it so painful), I do want to answer a few of them here real quick. First and foremost because this is bothering me.

In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will ...

Microsoft Corp. last week shipped software that adds reporting capabilities to SQL Server 2000, rounding out the line of business intelligence tools the company integrates with its relational database ...

Another interesting session I attended at the PASS Summit in Seattle was one concerning dealing with VLDBs in SQL Server. It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented by ...

In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will ...