I'm trying to take an XML document and dump the contents into a table. Not as XML using the SQL Server 2005 XML datatype, but as the parsed data values into a table with a column for each element ...

Microsoft SQL Server's relational engine has offered new instrumentation that improves by light years with each new release. The introduction of Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) in SQL Server 2005 ...

Also, they can connect SQL Server 2025 with Azure Arc to manage a hybrid SQL Server data estate at scale. Microsoft is also offering pay-as-you-go licensing for on-premises customers.

She also announced two new features for SQL Server working on both .NET Framework and .NET Core: Data Classification -- Available in Azure SQL Database and Microsoft SQL Server 2019 since CTP 2.0. UTF ...

We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server. The data won't be modified or ...

The Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) service now works with SQL Server data, and can be applied using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), according to a Monday Microsoft announcement.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target. Logging is an essential feature for any application, as it ...

The big data odyssey of SQL Server 2019, and more data and AI news from Microsoft Ignite; Review: SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux; Links to Managed Instance and Synapse ...

Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server 2016. Dynamic data masking ensures that non-privileged users see only the data they are permitted to see while other data is masked. The big benefit is that, once ...