This is the third TDAN.com article in a series on using ANSI SQL’s inherent hierarchical processing to integrate and process relational and XML data at a full hierarchical processing level. The first ...

In Part 1 of last issue’s article entitled In SQL: Using XML to Link Below the Root I described how ANSI SQL can transparently integrate native XML, and do it at a full hierarchical level that ...

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

There are three checkpoints through the semester, at each checkpoint, we submit our code to test the correctness and there will be a ranking of performance. ###Checkpoint 1: In this project, you will ...

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

Less than six months after its most recent acquisition, Cloudera is filling out its Dataflow streaming integration platform with SQL-based event stream processing. Cloudera is releasing SQL Stream ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...

This post is authored by Amit Banerjee, Principal PM Manager, SQL Server and Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft SQL Server Data Services. SQL Server has provided enterprises the capability to ...