This article guides you through enabling the Microsoft Entra-only authentication with Azure SQL feature within Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. If you are looking to provision a SQL ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

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Utilize Advisor's insightful analysis and suggestions to optimize database operations and apply #bestpractices for performance tuning. Conclusion An extensive approach including appropriate ...

Since Oracle launched its MySQL HeatWave service in December 2020, it has continuously driven differentiation in the database-as-a-service market. While competing against some of the biggest names in ...

When it comes to analyzing "pure" SQL code, most Oracle user know how to do it - with their prefered tools such as DBMS_XPLAIN or SQL Developer, SQL traces, AWRs, SQL Access Advisor etc. But how do ...

Abstract: Oracle provides several options to aid performance, such as partitioning large tables, using materialized views, storing plan outlines, and many others. This chapter examines how DBAs can ...

The release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18.7 is now generally available for download. Today we’re sharing some of the updates from the release and the ongoing work in SQL Server Management ...

Data warehousing and analytic workloads often need to scan large amounts of data, and can greatly benefit from columnstore indexes. In contrast, rowstore (B+-tree) indexes are most effective for ...