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 ...

Ignite, Microsoft's annual IT Pro and Developer confab kicks off today, with a slew of news in the data, analytics and AI areas of the company's stack, both in-cloud and on-premises.

Prior to SQL Server 2017, query processing was a monolithic process. The SQL Server query optimizer would first construct a query plan for a batch of T-SQL code, a stored procedure, or function and ...

Microsoft has updated its SQL Server Management Studio to version 17.3, adding two features along with various minor enhancements and bug fixes. SSMS 17.3, made available for download earlier this ...

Future plans for Copilot in SSMS include adding support for NLto SQL directly within the editor window, with the dev team focusing other improvement efforts depending upon feedback. As far as tech all ...

Infection and reinfection . Guardicore has seen an infection rate of between 2,000 to 3,000 machines daily, which is significant given that there are only around half-a-million MS-SQL servers on ...

In addition to StretchDB and AlwaysEncrypted, there are two more exciting features in the works for SQL Server 2016: dynamic data masking and row-level security. In the case of these two features, ...