Microsoft's continued focus on SQL Server 2025 highlights the lasting demand for on-premises and hybrid deployments that ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server ...

Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet” and with connections to Azure Synapse Link for enabling real-time analytics over the database ...

you can link that to Azure Synapse rather than moving data to the cloud twice, once in the proprietary SQL Server format and once in an open format that you can use with either SQL or Spark runtimes.

Keep your MDB file intact, but link to the server tables from inside the MDB. Doing so will use an ODBC link to the newly upsized tables on SQL Server. The resulting arrangement is slower than the ...

and tables How to connect SQL Server to a wide variety of data platform technologies We caught up with the Microsoft Data Platform MVP, who specializes in "data analytics with T-SQL and R, forcing ...

In announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately. A Copilot for the tool that helps users manage, ...