Azure SQL Database provides a variety of built-in masking functions for the most common scenarios, such as credit cards (such as XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-1234), Social Security numbers (such as XXX-XX-XX12), ...

But there is more! SQL Server 2019 will come with built-in support for Spark and the Hadoop File System. That’s an acknowledgement of the popularity of these open-source tools, as well as the ...

Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team.