In SQL Server 2016, this feature is vastly improved, supporting foreign keys, check and unique constraints and parallelism. Additionally, tables up to 2TB are now supported (up from 256GB).

Proper configuration ensures that Query Store collects meaningful data while minimizing its performance footprint on your SQL Server instance. Add your perspective Help others by sharing more (125 ...

One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server's Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

The other new feature, XEvent Profiler, can display a live target view of Extended Events, the general event-handling system for server systems. Extended Events supports the correlation of data from ...

The CTP 2.5 preview brings the following new features and capabilities to SQL Server 2019: Big data clusters. For more control and flexibility over the big data cluster layout and configuration ...

Somehow we should be doing that because a lot of times just installing the SQL Server is not enough to use that without enabling necessary features or changing the configuration. Note: If there is a ...