As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward.

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix issues affecting Windows Server systems after installing the April 2026 security updates. As Microsoft confirmed last week, some admins may ...

The IPO market is about to wake up. Hotly anticipated listings this year are forcing index providers into some tough choices that could send ripple effects across the fund management industry. Nasdaq ...

Just when I was hoping no one had experienced anything disastrous while I was away, I get back, get up and running, and find that Wilshire Indexes, the arm set up by parent asset manager Wilshire to ...

Catholics looking to align their investment portfolios with Catholic teaching now have some help from the Vatican. The Vatican Bank, formally known as the Institute for the Works of Religion, or IOR, ...

Indexes up: Dow 0.64%, S&P 500 0.50%, Nasdaq 0.43% USA Rare Earth jumps after reports of govt taking a 10% stake CoreWeave advances on Nvidia investment Prison stocks fall on backlash against ICE Jan ...

Running index optimize and I'm seeing that the nonclustered columnstore indexes are getting rebuilt with maxdop = 1 instead of maxdop = 8 as i would expect. Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (RTM-CU32-GDR) ...

Traditional indexes are generally designed with rules governing investment selection that seek to match the performance of a specific market. These parameters may relate to price, market ...

Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they’re treated as “set it and forget it” structures. As the data landscape evolves—with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, ...

On Friday, June 27, we will see the last annual Russell Reconstitution before the index provider switches to reconstitutions twice a year. We’ve covered before that, typically, Russell Reconstitution ...