Microsoft plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, "starting July 30, 2021." ...

SQL Servers allow the import or export of database diagrams to another database. All the information related to a database is stored in the dtproperties table. Therefore, to import or export a ...

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 ...

Q&A. Empowering AI Applications with Vector Search in SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB. By David Ramel; 05/27/2025; As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most ...

To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages. I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article.

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago.Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

It is the very early days of SQL Server 2025, but like I speculated last May, Microsoft has quietly been putting a lot of impressive features in Azure SQL Database, and I expected them to land in ...