“SQL on everything” is the tagline associated with Presto, the query engine that was initially developed by Facebook to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data — particularly data that lay scattered ...

Imagine your SQL assistant is a rocket, blasting through complex queries. Then one day you realize you're using rocket fuel ...

Query optimization lies at the heart of modern database management systems, striving to identify the most efficient access and execution plan for a given declarative query. Traditional optimisers ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

Query optimisation in distributed database systems addresses the challenge of selecting an efficient execution plan across multiple networked nodes. Owing to the combinatorial explosion of possible ...

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 ...