Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Yuki is a real-time data cost optimization platform that routes BigQuery and Snowflake queries to the most efficient compute in real time, with no code changes. Yuki runs privately in your cloud ...

Proprietary warehouses delivered scale — but at the cost of control, predictable pricing, and real flexibility. Enterprises are doing the math.

Plan enumeration → relevant plans. search space for a given query as the set of all the possible execution plans for that query, and any possible plan in this search space returns the same results but ...

New AI capabilities help DBAs move from performance visibility to performance resolution—turning slow queries into actionable index recommendations in minutes HOUSTON, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

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Abstract: Efficient SQL Query Optimization (QO) is a fundamental aspect of database management systems, aimed at enhancing query performance and reducing resource consumption typically involves ...

Abstract: Nowadays, businesses generate large volumes of data that must be stored in a reliable database. Among the available options, relational database management systems (RDBMS) are widely adopted ...

In this blog, we’ll walk you through what’s new across these services so you can plan your upgrade holistically and unlock the full potential of SQL Server 2025. Announcing SQL Server 2025—empowering ...

Existing index tuners typically rely on the “what if” API provided by the query optimizer to estimate the execution cost of a query on top of an index configuration. Such cost estimates can be ...