Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

Query engines are really good at choosing an efficient query plan. Users do not need to worry about how they write their query, since the optimizer makes all the right choices for executing the query ...

We study two classes of summary-based cardinality estima tors that use statistics about input relations and joins of a small number of input relations: (i) optimistic estimators, which were defined in ...

Abstract: The deep learning-based cardinality estimation is a hot research topic in the field of database query optimization. The SQL query featurization has a direct impact on the quality of ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

Currently, when StarRocks performs CE (Cardinality Estimation), the Cost-Based Optimizer (CBO) mostly assumes that multiple columns are independent, meaning there is ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...