Splice Machine says the launch this week of its public beta opens up the Hadoop stack for the first time to a full-featured SQL database, capable of running transactions and analytics simultaneously.

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

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Enhanced update management supports enterprise compliance and mission-critical workloads.

Custom proximity search is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012 Full-Text Search. It's facilitated using the NEAR operator, allowing it to be used in the CONTAINS predicate or CONTAINSTABLE ...

Microsoft Corp., which last year announced plans to bring a limited version of its SQL Server database online, now plans to offer a fully capable cloud version. Microsoft told The Register earlier ...

where @searchPhraseis currently an NVARCHAR(1000) and holds the result of a function call that puts together the full search phrase. This all works fine as is but a long search string will increase ...