“SQL on everything” is the tagline associated with Presto, the query engine that was initially developed by Facebook to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data — particularly data that lay scattered ...

Of all the user personas across the data landscape, the data consumer is arguably the most difficult to appease. Oftentimes, such users are heedless of the backend processes required to service the ...

Query optimisation remains a critical discipline in database systems, underpinning the efficiency and responsiveness of data-driven applications. By selecting optimal execution plans, modern query ...

Redgate, the Database DevOps solutions provider, is launching upgrades to its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, strengthening its query tuning and optimization functions to facilitate enhanced ...

Skyline query processing is a critical research area within database management and big data analytics, focused on retrieving a subset of data points that are not outperformed by any other entries ...

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 ...

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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 ...