Query processing and optimisation form the backbone of relational database management, transforming high‐level declarative requests into efficient execution strategies. The pipeline begins with ...

The three features of adaptive query processing can make SQL Server 2017 significantly faster at processing your workload. Not only that, but they also provide significant improvements without needing ...

Columnar databases help with Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads since the queries touch across a subset of columns but a large number of rows for those columns. Columnar storage format ...

QueryGrid is a software-based service embedded in Teradata Database 15, also announced today, that’s designed to allow Teradata Database to intelligently use the functionality and data of multiple ...

To survive in today's ultra-competitive business environment, companies have to be adaptable and be able to move quickly with the ever-changing market conditions. It's not enough to simply have a good ...

The tide is changing for analytics architectures. Traditional approaches, from the data warehouse to the data lake, implicitly assume that all relevant data can be stored in a single, centralized ...