Sean Gallagher, who began his career as an IT project manager for the Navy, has spent two decades as a technology writer and reviewer. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its SQL Server ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...

When you decide to undertake your own benchmarking project, it’s a strongly recommended best practice to write up a benchmarking plan. For example, the dev architect might propose that the main OLTP ...

One of the major challenges for the IT companies today is how to manage large growing volumes of data and how to produce a quality driven software product ensuring optimal utilization of resources ...

A comprehensive database optimization framework integrating connection pooling, distributed caching, and multi-layer encryption achieves ...