Application support is also important. Microsoft has taken some steps toward this already—for example, the JDBC driver, used to access SQL Server from Java applications, was recently open ...

At today's kickoff for Microsoft ... resources. SQL Server has supported backing up to Azure blob storage since a late release of SQL Server 2012. Still, it has always relied upon access keys ...

A public preview of SQL Server 2025 adds new vector capabilities already found in rival databases, along with JSON support ...

Bring AI to your database! Learn how to build smarter apps with vector search in SQL Server & Azure Cosmos DB -- no extra AI ...

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core. As the traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework is basically ...

Microsoft’s answer to the problem is to release SQL Server Express to the Azure Gallery marketplace. Customers can now access SQL Server Express with Tools 2014, 2012 and 2008R2 virtual machines ...

SQL Server guru Darren Myher puts it this way: Security Update MS14-066 causes major performance problems in Microsoft Access/SQL Server applications… When the update is installed to a server ...

Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, and Visual Studio 2010 will represent the last versions to support Intel's Itanium architecture, Microsoft has announced on its Windows Server blog.