In a modern enterprise data environment, the increasing volume of data, distributed architecture, and complex application dependencies challenge traditional query-tuning methods. Observability ...

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. Database ...

Database optimization has long relied on traditional methods that struggle with the complexities of modern data environments. These methods often fail to efficiently handle large-scale data, complex ...

Is it SQL, NoSQL, or NewSQL? Even though it's just naming conventions, MemSQL is usually thought of as part of the NewSQL lot. That is, databases grounded on the relational SQL model yet adopting some ...