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Efficient communication with the database server without need for foreign libraries. Support for UTF-8 on Unicode-aware Lisp implementations A syntax for mixing SQL and Lisp code Convenient support ...

Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. I still remember the morning our CTO walked into our weekly team meeting and dropped the bomb: ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...