With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

In a previous blog entry, I discussed the issue surrounding ORDER BY’s in VIEW’s and backward compatibility. The blog was entitled: “ORDER BY in a View is not allowed – or is it?”. Well, it looks like ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...