I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

If I have a SQL server process that has been running for some time, are there any methods to determining how much memory it really needs to run? I have a couple of low usage databases and I want to ...

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Last year, Microsoft officials said the next version of its SQL Server database would include built-in in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) technology. That was all they'd say at that point ...

Microsoft released to manufacturing the latest version of its SQL Server database, SQL Server 2014, on March 18. SQL Server 2014 will be available to customers as of April 1. The newest version of SQL ...

Correct me if I am wrong but if you have a server with 4 gigs of memory 2 gigs are for the Operating system use and the other 2 are for processes etc.<BR><BR>Am I way off with that statement? We have ...