Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't.

With the latest public preview available, it's time to see if you want to upgrade to the most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far.

What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your client's users will be more familiar with it, and it's relatively easy to put ...

Microsoft is adding a brand-new business-intelligence SKU and core-based licensing to its coming SQL Server 2012 database offering due next year.

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals.

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

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 ...

To run your SQL Pass-Through views for the MS SQL Server, you are encouraged, but not required, to create a data source name. You can use the ODBC administrator to create it. Refer to Data Source ...

Since the SQL Server was on a server other than my View Connection server, I had to enable networking for the database. To do this, I went to the SQL Server Configuration Manager, expanded the SQL ...