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Introducing a new cloud billing option for SQL Server customers, providing pay-as-you-go flexibility across on-premises and cloud environments. License by vCore [4]New Allows customers to elect to ...

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment ...

Each database is associated with a compatibility level, allowing it to behave consistently with the specific SQL Server version it runs on. Now, we will call the “STRING_SPLIT” function to split a ...

If you want to download Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, make sure you use the official page and link. Here's how to do that!

Substr and instr are frustratingly limited but well defined. Regex specs can differ. Random syntax test sites from Google might not match Oracle’s implementation, which may change between versions.

This article discusses the “DROP IF EXISTS” statement available in SQL Server 2016 and later versions. “IF EXITS” is the latest optional clause added in the existing DROP statement in SQL Server 2016 ...