Another new capability in the toolkit is the ability to gather information about moving to the Database Consolidation Appliance, which is a complete hardware and software SQL Server 2012 product.

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment.

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

News. Microsoft Releases MAP 6.0 Planning Tool, Adds Cloud Features. By Kurt Mackie; 07/19/2011; Less than a month after its beta release, the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 (MAP 6.0) ...

Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements.

SQL Data Discovery & Classification, a tool within Microsoft's SQL Server 2019, could inform attackers which data within a database is labeled sensitive, and which isn't, researchers report.

Also new in the mssql VS Code tool are what Yu described as the No. 1 and No 2 most-requested features as identified in developer feedback over the past two years: SQL Server Management Studio Object ...