Ubuntu 24.04 support in SQL Server 2025 Preview For the first time, SQL Server 2025 can run on Ubuntu 24.04 in dev and test setups. Microsoft is offering the Enterprise Evaluation Edition, which is ...

Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

Learn how to install and configure SQL Server Management Studio, download a SQL Server, and connect them on a Windows 11/10/Server computer..

In July 2024, SQL Server Stretch Database will be discontinued for SQL Server 2022, 2019, 2017 and 2016. Learn more.

By Madhukar Moogala With the advent of the modern .NET platform, we've received queries from customers about loading SQL data client libraries onto the AutoCAD runtime. This post aims to address those ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. We are excited to share that there are several Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) enhancements in SQL Server 2022 that further improve the overall ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

If you have a legacy MS Access database or like its GUI, then there are ways to boost its abilities by teaming it up with SQL.

Welcome to my box of tricks (SQL scripts) for Microsoft SQL Server instance and database administration! I've put considerable effort, over many years, into creating my own scripts, as well as ...

Like the rest of the SQL Server family, Azure SQL Edge is a relational database with nonrelational capabilities. You can use it for traditional table-based storage, or instead work with JSON ...