With all the cheerleading and the steady drumbeat of new features being released to Azure, it’s easy to lose track of the many cool and valuable new features released in the on-premises version of SQL ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

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New Cardinality Estimator: SQL Server’s cardinality estimator, a key component using in query optimization, has been running on a code base first written for the SQL Server 2005 release. The new SQL ...

While this risk is bigger than the upgrade risk (a change to the cardinality estimator in the SQL Server 2014 optimizer impacted a lot of workloads), there are easy ways to mitigate against that. SQL ...