A business I support recently purchased an add on to the pos software they use. It uses .net 3 and sql server express 2005.<BR><BR>Their support tech came out and installed some new hardware (not ...

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 ...

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Everybody wants their databases to retrieve and store information faster, and with SQL Server 2014, which is released to manufacturing today, Microsoft is tweaking its columnar data store as well as ...

I am running Windows 2000 Advance server with SQL server 2000. I have noticed a bad thing happening with the RAM. <BR>Before I go any further, here are some specs<BR><BR>Compaq Proliant Rack ...

Knowing exactly what in-memory OLTP tables are used for will help you make the most of one of SQL Server's newest features. While in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) tables may sound like a ...

In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management system. The next version of SQL Server will ...