We have released our latest JDBC driver Microsoft SQL Server JDBC 3.0 in sync with SQL Server 2008 R2! In this release we added support for features introduced in SQL Server 2008, which includes date and time data types, sparse columns, MERGE statements...

It’s here! SQL Server 2008 R2 is available and faster than ever! SQL Server 2008 R2 has five published TPC-E benchmark results. It holds the top four performance results and the best price/performance result. The testing used up to 96 cores. Did you catch...

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DMV: sys.dm_db_partition_stats This DMV returns information for the current database context. It can tell you how many rows are in each table (per partition) and how much of the space is used and reserved for in-row, overflow, and LOB data (with...

I was recently asked about whether SQL Server data can move between architectures, say from x64 to x86. Yes, you can move SQL Server data back and forth between x64, x86, and IA64 architectures. The data and log files themselves do not store anything...