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 ...

Data Partitioning in SQL Server was introduced in the 2005 release. This was a feature that had been in Oracle and IBM’s DB2 for a while, but Microsoft is positioning to compete in the VLDB market ...

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...