Azure SQL Database typically receives new features ahead of SQL Server, which allows Microsoft to see how these features operate in the wild and to understand how widely they are being used.

The latest addition to the toolkit was introduced to Azure SQL Database last week: support for query hints. Query hints are used to override the normal behavior of the SQL Server query optimizer ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 stop getting ESUs on July 12 ... to those editions (and they’ll get ESUs if you run them in Azure). If you have a passive secondary server for failover from a ...

Tomorrow, another such rite of passage will take place as SQL Server's 2008 and 2008R2 releases exit extended support. But the Azure cloud and a forthcoming public preview of SQL Server 2019 Big ...

I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article. These will allow you to query your Azure SQL database. You will need: Microsoft System CLR Types for Microsoft SQL Server ...

Microsoft is nevertheless calling SQL Server 2022 "the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet." Also read: At Ignite, Microsoft enhances its cloud database, warehouse and lake services While ...

If you’re looking for a popular database management system (DBMS) platform, Microsoft SQL Server is a solid choice. Research from Gartner shows it’s among the most widely deployed platforms in the ...

SQL Server 2025 also comes with improved AI model management through model definitions built into T-SQL to AI services, including Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Ollama, and more.

Few solutions lack a database component, and since SQL Server on-premises and Azure SQL Database in the cloud are among the most capable and popular options for serious developers, we wanted to show ...