At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability ...

Defining Managed SQL Services Managed SQL services are cloud-based solutions that give users access to SQL databases without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. This means the service ...

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

By default (which isn’t a good practice) the location of your databases are here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA Unlike yours, this particular one is ...

Microsoft is also delivering more seamless Azure integration with SQL Server 2025. The new Microsoft Fabric database mirroring will allow customers to set up real-time analytics by replicating SQL ...

PAGEIOLATCH_*—Buffer latches, including the PAGEIOLATCH_EX wait type, are used to synchronize access to BUF structures and associated pages in the SQL Server database. The most frequently occurring ...

SQL has dominated ... that sea of bytes on some server, just waiting for you to find a way to spell out what you need. The language is a natural match for some JSON databases, but GraphQL is ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

I needed this capability on a recent consulting project to build a dashboard management reporting system for a very large medical database on a server with a slow DSL connection. I needed to copy the ...

Within SQL Server, temporary tables are stored in the Temporary Tables folder of the tempdb database. Transactions allow you to group SQL commands into a single unit. The transaction begins with a ...