PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Learn how Data Transformation Services (DTS) can help you import, export, and/or transform data from various sources to single or multiple locations in Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading) in SQL Server is especially useful when data from the source systems does not conform to the business rules. Before loading all the data captured into a ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

Some features specifically use telemetry as part of the feature. One cool example in SQL Azure is that we can recommend, create and validate indexes for your application automatically.

The server-side tracing component, SQL Trace, is more closely integrated with SQL Server engines than it was in SQL Server 7.0. Now it can, for example, write to native server-side files directly ...

See performance gains by using indexed views in SQL Server Your email has been sent A view is a saved T-SQL query in SQL Server. The view definition is stored by SQL Server so that it can be used as a ...

I sat down for a two-part interview with Conor Cunningham, partner architect for SQL Server/Azure SQL at Microsoft, to talk about telemetry and how it is used to improve the product. In Part 1, we ...