SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...

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Microsoft has introduced SQL Server 2012 to the world and it's time for IT professionals to start to come to speed on what's new. Microsoft has introduced SQL Server 2012 to the world and it's time ...

The next version of the Microsoft flagship database promises to add dynamic extensions to Azure and real time links between structured and unstructured data. The next release of Microsoft SQL Server ...

This chapter is an extension of the previous one, detailing IQP features that require SQL Server 2022 (or more correctly, a dbcompat level of 160). The three features discussed all use information ...

Intelligent Query Processing (IQP) offers a group of features that automatically improve the performance of your SQL queries. Since its inauguration in SQL Server 2017, more features have been added, ...