Ars Technica

SQL Server PIVOT (with calendar weeks)

This has been driving me crazy. Can anyone help me understand how I can dynamically create a sort of calendar view for a promotional schedule? I can't seem to get anything to work My table ...
Network World

PowerPivot with SQL Server 2008 R2

PowerPivot with SQL Server 2008 R2 One of the prime-time features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is provided by the “Project Gemini” technology known as PowerPivot for “Self Service BI”. Working with ...
Redmond Magazine

A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...
dbta

Microsoft’s Trajectory for SQL Server Becomes Clear with PowerPivot

I was once asked what I thought Microsoft's overall product trajectory for SQL Server was, in light of Oracle's rather obvious trajectory of acquiring multiple application vendors who will, in turn, ...
dbta

Adaptive Query Processing in SQL Server 2017

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...