Abstract: SQL Azure's concurrency control relies on multi-versioning to prevent readers and writers from blocking each other and on in-memory row locks to prevent multiple writers modifying the same ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

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Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. We are excited to share that there are several Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) enhancements in SQL Server 2022 that further improve the overall ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Cardinality estimation (CE) is a process used by the query optimizer to estimate the number of rows returned by a query or sub-part of a query. These estimates ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...