Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago.Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2008/R2 reach end of support; SQL Server 2019 and Azure await In response, Redmond says, that for many customers, the time for cloud migration has arrived. Written by Andrew ...

SQL Server 2022 customers will see benefits in the areas of data integration, analytics, governance, and high availability thanks to the database’s enhanced connectivity to the Azure cloud, Microsoft ...

This addition was added in SQL Server 2017 and is also available on all flavors of Azure SQL. SQL Server tracks what every thread is waiting on, when that thread is not actively executing.

Joey on SQL Server. How Telemetry Is Making SQL Server and Azure SQL Better: Part 1. In the first of this two-part series, Microsoft's lead SQL architect explains how the company collects -- and ...

SQL Server Analysis Services, one of the key features of Microsoft's relational database enterprise offering, is going to the cloud. The company announced Tuesday that it's launching the public ...

Microsoft is preparing to release a preview of a new version of its Azure SQL database before year-end which is aimed at simplifying the move of database applications to the cloud.

With Azure Arc, Microsoft extended the core resource management capabilities of Azure to support external resources like Linux and Windows servers, Kubernetes clusters, SQL Server instances ...

For SQL Server and Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2, you’ll get free ESUs on Azure until July 12, 2025; Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 extended support goes away on October 10, 2026.

The latest version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) was unveiled by Dinakar Nethi, senior program manager for Azure Data, in an April 24 post on the SQL Server Blog. “When I joined the SQL ...