As mentioned in my post on VLDBs, one of the key pieces of a high performing solution is the use of Read-only Filegroups. If a significant part of your data is not changing, then why not tell SQL ...

When creating code first migrations, there is no possibility to change the database filegroup of an object (table, index,...). Having all data and indicies in the PRIMARY filegroup of an SQL Server ...

The system administrator who is restoring the files and filegroups must be the only person currently using the database to be restored. RESTORE is not allowed in an explicit or implicit transaction.

We have an app that stores documents in the database as a varbinary(max) column. Our current average document size is about 475KB, so these are not large documents by any means, but there are a fair ...

SQL Server 2014 introduces memory-optimized database technology for optimizing the performance of OLTP workloads. In particular, it introduces memory-optimized tables for efficient, contention-free ...

SQL Server 2014 takes an integrated approach to in-memory database technology. In-Memory OLTP, which optimizes performance of OLTP workloads, is fully integrated in the core SQL Server relational ...