SQL Server tools are used across industries to improve the performance, security, and automation of databases. Modern tools support cloud-hybrid s ...

Enhanced update management supports enterprise compliance and mission-critical workloads.

Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric – to see how they address rapidly evolving ...

For those of you still using SQL Server 2005, Microsoft will completely end support on April 12th 2016. You can head over here to check out upgrade guidelines, download migration tools, and read more ...

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

Microsoft unveiled Azure HorizonDB at the Ignite conference, a new fully managed, scalable, and high-throughput PostgreSQL cloud database in private preview. At the Ignite conference, Microsoft today ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In helping students prepare for this exam, I have identified a number of commonly misunderstood ...

Microsoft has launched Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server on Windows in the US Government, Virginia region. The Redmond giant called this a "major first step". Microsoft has recently announced that Azure ...

Microsoft is making it easier to migrate to Azure SQL by taking the grunt work out of schema setup. A new update to Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) introduces a built-in schema migration tool ...