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 ...

Say we have two types of tools: hammers and wrenches. We have a list of work orders, and we want to track what tool was used for the hammering and what was used for the wrenching. The problem is that ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

Multiple Detail Records - 4 in this case. (linked to the header record) Multiple Inventory Records - again, 4 - (each detail record points to one specific inventory record, but the inventory may be ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

You create PROC SQL tables from SAS data files, from SAS data views, from relational DBMS tables using the LIBNAME statement, or from relational DBMS tables using the SQL Procedure Pass-Through ...