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

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage ...

Announcing SQL Server 2025—empowering customers to develop modern AI applications securely using their data, complete with best-in-class security, performance, and availability.

The most common SQL databases in manufacturing are Microsoft’s SQL Server and Oracle’s MySQL. (But this may be changing. See the “SQL or NoSQL” sidebar.) Historians. Production data, such as ...

The new ledger feature in SQL Server 2022 provides blockchain-based security ... and the latest data virtualization capabilities with PolyBase Lobel explained ledger applies to both entire databases ...

PAGEIOLATCH_*—Buffer latches, including the PAGEIOLATCH_EX wait type, are used to synchronize access to BUF structures and associated pages in the SQL Server database. The most frequently occurring ...

Within SQL Server, temporary tables are stored in the Temporary Tables folder of the tempdb database. Transactions allow you to group SQL commands into a single unit. The transaction begins with a ...