Microsoft is touting a new version of SQL Server that features in-memory processing for faster web transactions. But Azure is fast becoming the star in Microsoft's big data strategy.

How can understanding wait statistics improve query performance in SQL Server? Understanding wait statistics allows the data professional to tune individual queries or, if necessary, to tune ...

Microsoft has released to manufacturing the newest version of its relational database, SQL Server 2012, the company announced Tuesday. The software will be available for customer purchase on April 1.

This isn’t a good month for IT admins to take time off if they want to get ahead of all the patches Microsoft pushed out this week.