Partitioning is a database design technique when data is split across multiple tables or databases but is logically still one table. This technique is proper when dealing with large tables, as it can ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Time series data is a set of values organized in the order in which they occur and arrive for processing. Unlike transactional data in SQL Server, which is not ...

Exports the contents of a table, view, or query of a SQL Server database to an RFC 4180-compliant CSV file. This function supports the export of huge result sets by writing the contents of the CSV ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about “No SQL” databases. In fact there are at least two conferences on the topic in 2009, one on each coast. Seemingly this buzz comes from people who are ...