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 ...

How Microsoft made Azure SQL more available by making recovery faster Your email has been sent Databases are wonderful things, until they go wrong. Then you’re left waiting for a recovery to unwind ...

Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...

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The October release of Azure Data Studio (formerly called SQL Operations Studio) includes preview support for SQL Server 2019 and more. Azure Data Studio, which was introduced last year as SQL ...

Microsoft detailed a raft of improvements coming to its database products at this week's PASS Summit, including migration support to Azure SQL Database, Apache Kafka Support on Azure Event Hubs, Azure ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

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 ...