The biggest feature in the SQL Server 2019 preview launched at Ignite is SQL Server Big Data clusters. Travis Wright, Microsoft's principal program manager for SQL Server, explains exactly what this ...

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core. As the traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework is basically ...

Microsoft announced late last month that it'll be ending support for two SQL Server capabilities, with cloud services and SQL Server 2022 typically proposed as replacements. The SQL Server 2019 Big ...

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 ...

I've been playing around with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and although many have complained about missing features compared to the "Data Dude" Visual Studio projects and other tools that SSDT ...

I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality. I've been ...