What market data is necessary to facilitate trading in today’s markets? The answer, based on some of the most liquid markets in the world, is: Not much.

Including too much into core data forces many to pay for things they will never be able to use, or pay for technology that only more sophisticated traders want. Getting the prices to be public in the ...

After chatting with my friend and fellow Microsoft MVP Allen White about Windows Server Core on a recent SQLCruise.com excursion, I realized that this is a technology I should be evangelizing more. I ...

Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.