SQL Server 2014 hit its "release-to-manufacturing" milestone today, with Microsoft projecting an April 1 commercial release. The new relational database management system refines technologies ...

Maxer's latest thread reminded me of a problem I came across awhile ago but never solved. Let's say I have a set of items, a strict ordering of them, and a constraint that some subsets are mutually ...

Global software house Microsoft is making big data the focus of SQL Server 2019, set for release later this year. A key part is data virtualisation, eliminating complex ETL processes. Microsoft says ...