In November, Microsoft released version 18.4 for the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), introducing some key features such as support for materialized view scripts in SQL Data Warehouse.

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 ...

Learn more about SQL Server Business Intelligence (SQL Server BI) at Techopedia. Data warehouses may provide developers with tools for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data. Performance ...

The latest version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) was unveiled by Dinakar Nethi, senior program manager for Azure Data, in an April 24 post on the SQL Server Blog. “When I joined the SQL ...

In an earlier column, I showed how to create a temporal table in SQL Server 2016 or Azure SQL Database. Once you've defined a temporal table, SQL Server automatically keeps a history of all the ...

New improvements for the SQL Server 2019 extension, including updates for Azure Data Studio Notebooks and the Create External Data Wizard, are also part of the January updates, wrote Yu.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008/R2 reach end of support; SQL Server 2019 and Azure await ... (ETL); and master data management. 2008R2 also introduced Power Pivot, a precursor to today's Power BI.

In addition to SQL Server 2019, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18 is the most current version. A release date of December 17, 2020 has been set. It is free to download the Developer Edition.