SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

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This whitepaper illustrates the SQL Server 2016 business intelligence/data warehouse upgrades, the memory-optimized tables, and the columnstore indexes. We also discuss the performance comparison of ...

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While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.

On Friday Microsoft released the first service pack for SQL Server 2012. The news was delivered at the company's PASS event, held last week in Seattle. Corporate Vice President Ted Kummert introduced ...

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 ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the availability of the first new service pack for SQL Server 2012, along with other improvements to come, at the annual PASS summit event. The news was delivered in a ...