Knowing exactly what in-memory OLTP tables are used for will help you make the most of one of SQL Server's newest features. While in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) tables may sound like a ...

Custom proximity search is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012 Full-Text Search. It's facilitated using the NEAR operator, allowing it to be used in the CONTAINS predicate or CONTAINSTABLE ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

I want to design a query to compute some returns for stock data and in searching the 'SQL Server Books Online' I find a very small and not so helpful at all help section on the lead and lag functions.

In the age of big data, efficiently managing relational databases, particularly SQL Server, may be the single most important issue facing a growing number of CIOs and data center managers. Throughout ...