One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

SQL Server 2012 is a large, complex product that represents Microsoft's vision of where data is headed. If that vision were to be summed up in one word, that word would be: big. To meet the challenges ...

CPU issues have long been the bane of database and system administrators. I have worked on enterprise databases since the mid-1980s and seen three significant eras for CPU architecture and ...

Microsoft last week updated the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit to "release to manufacturing" status, according to a tweet from the product's Twitter page. The update comes nearly 2.5 months ...

Microsoft has reminded Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012 users that the products will reach their extended support end dates during the next two years, urging them to update to avoid security ...