This means a two-core pack of SQL Server Enterprise Edition will now be approximately $15,123 (up from $13,748), and a core of Standard Edition will be $3,944 (up from $3,586).

With SQL Server 2022, there was a shift back to a slightly slower cadence, which we are back to -- I'm not expecting a SQL Server 2024, but you never know.

As today's database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

In SQL Server 2016, we saw the first release of PolyBase in the mainline SQL Server product. This supported access to Hadoop and Azure Blob Storage. With SQL Server 2019, the focus changed to ...

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 ...

The appeal of cost savings in moving SQL server farms to the cloud as part of this modernization cannot be overstated. Cloud giants like Azure, AWS, GCP and Snowflake offer attractive pricing ...

When you use index views in the right situations, they can dramatically improve the performance of SQL Server queries. Tim Chapman explains why performance testing is the best way to tell if ...