SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering nearly every stage of the software development lifecycle. From code generation to automated testing, AI tools are increasingly embedded in the daily ...

We all know how to define database indexes, but which indexes to define remains a mysterious art for most software developers. This discussion will use general principles and specific scenarios to ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...