With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

IT pros may need to roll up their sleeves and exercise their upgrade skills soon, as some Microsoft server products will be reaching their "end of support" (EoS) phases this year. Unsupported products ...

So, my client and their subcontractor(s) have found themselves in a bit of a pickle, as no one bothered to spec or price a DB for a software implementation, so now I've been handed the bag. The client ...

SSIS is a popular and mature tool for performing data movement and cleanup operations. In the Microsoft ecosystem, SSIS is one of the most common extract, load, and transform (ETL) tools in use today.

A private preview of SQL Server 2025 began in November 2024, followed by a public preview in May 2025. Now, it is time for the natural next step, as the tool has received its first release candidate, ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...