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SQL Server 2016 Changed the Database World -- Now Its Final Countdown Has Begun

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.
GitHub

iceberg_cardinality_estimates.test

create view my_datalake.default.lineitem_001_deletes as select * from ICEBERG_SCAN('__WORKING_DIRECTORY__/data/generated/iceberg/spark-local/default/lineitem_001 ...
IEEE

Efficient Cardinality Estimation with Query-induced Probability Inference

Abstract: As the critical task in query optimization, cardinality estimation is fulfilled by learning the joint probability distribution of table attributes in most of the existing data-driven methods ...
GitHub

Microsoft SqlClient Data Provider for SQL Server

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient is a .NET data provider for Microsoft SQL Server and the Azure SQL family of databases. It grew from a union of the two System.Data.SqlClient components which live ...
IEEE

On Deploying Secure Computing: Private Intersection-Sum-with-Cardinality

Abstract: In this work, we discuss our successful efforts for industry deployment of a cryptographic secure computation protocol. The problem we consider is privately computing aggregate conversion ...