Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

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

In SQL Server, the initial dialect for stored procedures (or stored procs) was Transact-SQL, aka T-SQL; in Oracle, it was PL-SQL. Both databases have added additional languages for stored ...

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year. Language extensions are used in SQL Server to allow users to execute code externally for queries. The ...

Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language. The new tool joins similar ...

SQL Server Express Edition ... The target market for Express or MSDE is the embedded market. The various language Express editions will cost in the "tens of dollars," Montgomery said.

Couchbase yesterday announced that N1QL, unveiled in February, is a primary component of its new Couchbase Server 4.0, just released in beta. "N1QL is based on SQL," Couchbase said. "It has familiar ...

SQL Server 2025 is also introducing a native JSON ... Like Github Copilot, it will help you write T-SQL based on native language prompts. In SSMS, Copilot will use the context of your connection ...

This is basically a declarative language used for storing and retrieving data in a database. If you’ve heard of SQL, it’s probably in the context of MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or SQLite.