Has columnstore index enhancements for sorting and Always On Availability Group support. New security features: Always Encrypted: When enabled, only the application that has the encryption key can access the e
Has columnstore index enhancements for sorting and Always On Availability Group support. New security features: Always Encrypted: When enabled, only the application that has the encryption key can access the encrypted sensitive data in the SQL Server 2016 database. The key is never passed to SQL...
Has columnstore index enhancements for sorting and Always On Availability Group support. New security features: Always Encrypted: When enabled, only the application that has the encryption key can access the encrypted sensitive data in the SQL Server 2016 database. The key is never passed to SQL...
The v8.4 release of SSMA for Oracle is enhanced with targeted fixes that are designed to address accessibility issues and fix a bug related to max index columns (to allow 32 instead of 16) for SQL Server 2016 and later versions. In addition, this release of SSMA for Oracle adds conversion...
SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services GA (Generally Available) Tabular model compatibility level This release introduces the 1500 compatibility level for tabular models. Query interleaving Query interleaving is a tabular mode system configuration that can improve user query response times in high-concurrency sc...
Indexes in SQL databases can have the biggest positive impact on the performance of your SQL Server, or they can be your worst nightmare, depending on how you create them. The original intent with having an index is to reduce the lookup time by making queries run faster and to improve SQL...
Each element of the vector is stored as a single-precision (4-byte) floating-point value. Vector functions New scalar functions perform operations on vectors in binary format, allowing applications to store and manipulate vectors in the SQL Database Engine. Vector index Create and manage ...
SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services GA (Generally Available) Tabular model compatibility level This release introduces the 1500 compatibility level for tabular models. Query interleaving Query interleaving is a tabular mode system configuration that can improve user query response times in high-concurrency sc...
Another important art is choosing a good, unique primary key for every table. You not only have to consider the impact of the primary key on common queries, but how it will play in joins when it appears as a foreign key in another table, and how it will affect the data’s locality ...
Currently, Microsoft offers SQL Server in the following versions with different features and capabilities. Each version is built to meet different organizations' unique performance, runtime and pricing requirements and requires different SQL Server components to be installed: ...