Query processing and optimisation are critical components of modern database systems, serving to translate high‐level declarative queries into efficient, low‐level machine instructions. At its core, ...

Prior to SQL Server 2017, query processing was a monolithic process. The SQL Server query optimizer would first construct a query plan for a batch of T-SQL code, a stored procedure, or function and ...

Bing has launched a new intelligent search feature which provides the exact piece of code a developer is looking for. The code snippet will appear right on the search results page itself, which means ...

In recent years, Apache Spark – an open-source processing engine for huge data sets that distributes processing tasks across multiple dedicated hardware units – has skyrocketed in popularity amongst ...

Aiming to help organizations orchestrate analytical processing across myriad systems without moving data, Teradata unveiled Teradata QueryGrid at its Teradata Universe show in Prague today. QueryGrid ...