Microsoft added Java language extensions with the release of SQL Server 2019 so that users could take advantage of secure execution of Java programs within a SQL Server query on the Zulu Open JRE ...

Now, as part of the May 2018 update to SQL Operations, the Redmond, Wash. software giant has given its seal of approval to the SQL Search extension from Redgate, a Microsoft SQL Server tools ...

Also, the company is ending support for SQL 2008 and 2008 R2 as of today. Microsoft encourages users of this legacy software to “modernize these older workloads by moving them to Azure.” More ...

But other IT managers and programming experts caution that using non-SQL languages won't be the best choice for all database development. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

The extension model introduced with Visual Studio Code and subsequently tracked by the Visual Studio IDE is proving so popular it has been applied to SQL Operations Studio.. Still in preview, SQL ...

For more than 40 years, SQL has provided a standard way to query structured data. However, much of the data being generated and stored today exists in semi-structured formats, like JSON, which doesn’t ...

PL/SQL stands for Procedural Language extension of SQL. PL/SQL is a combination of SQL along with the procedural features of programming languages. It was developed by Oracle Corporation in the early ...

SuperSQL is an extension of SQL that allows formatting and publishing of database contents into various kinds of application data directly as a result of a query. Possible application data output ...

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s ...