One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

Microsoft Corp. today released SQL Server 2022, the latest release of its popular SQL Server relational database. SQL Server can run in the cloud and on on-premises infrastructure. The latest release ...

Security is a longstanding priority for Microsoft across its products and offerings. In fact, SQL Server has pro­duced the fewest security vulnerabilities of all the major database platforms for many ...

Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks. While the embrace of big data, machine learning, and IoT by business enterprises everywhere may ...

Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend ...

As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most exciting advancements is the ability to enrich existing databases with semantic understanding through vector search ...

The cloud is becoming increasingly distributed, with container technologies allowing easy deployment of what had been cloud functionality to devices at the edge of the network. What began with ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...