As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward.

Although some major corporations have recently scaled back the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives they once prioritized, DEI remains an important business component for many small and ...

Bullying is a form of aggressive, potentially violent behavior. Bullying can occur at school, online, in the workplace, or at home. It can also be grounded in prejudice. Bullying is an aggressive ...

Abstract: Portfolio analysis is a crucial subject within modern finance. However, the classical Markowitz model, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991, faces new challenges in ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Cardinality estimation (CE) is a process used by the query optimizer to estimate the number of rows returned by a query or sub-part of a query. These estimates ...

What are you trying to achieve? Currently, we recommend using low-cardinality span names in all trace conventions. It would be great to have a definition of cardinality and the idea of what low and ...