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

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

Few solutions lack a database component, and since SQL Server on-premises and Azure SQL Database in the cloud are among the most capable and popular options for serious developers, we wanted to show ...

Hackers are targeting Azure virtual machines (VM ... which is also the first time someone’s used an SQL server in this way. Starting the attack, the threat actors would first take advantage ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing model. Besides releasing SQL Server 2022 this week, Microsoft also announced ...

Customers who are running their SQL Server workloads using SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and Azure SQL Managed Instance are now eligible for new high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR ...

Microsoft is nevertheless calling SQL Server 2022 "the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet." Also read: At Ignite, Microsoft enhances its cloud database, warehouse and lake services While ...

and API interfaces to the Azure Portal and the Azure Resource Manager. SQL Agent, in contrast, supports only T-SQL and the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) API, and SMO. Second, Elastic Jobs has a ...

Azure SQL Database typically receives new features ahead of SQL Server, which allows Microsoft to see how these features operate in the wild and to understand how widely they are being used.

As White rightly notes, this also ensures that developers only have to write an application once and then deploy it to platforms that feature Azure SQL Database, good old SQL Server on premises ...