In the cloud era, you may wonder why Microsoft is investing big into an "on-premises" product like SQL Server. It is a complex question I wanted to answer through the lens of some of the new ...

Organizations that want to run SQL Server on Microsoft’s cloud can either buy the database as a service or install it on a virtual machine that’s then deployed on Azure.

The latest version of Microsoft's flagship Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is offered in two versions: the regular SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 and the cloud-based SQL ...

Microsoft's cloud-based SQL Database now supports row level security (RLS), a feature offered in a number of other databases. RLS lets administrators provide row-level access to data based on a ...

Toad Data Studio features an advanced SQL editor, SQL and DDL generation, and the ability to edit JSON and XML fields directly within table fields or in their own separate editing window.