Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies ...

SQL Advisor SQL Server Data Tools: A Work in Progress I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is ...

The SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment tool (VA) is a feature within SQL Server Management Server (SSMS) 17.4 that scans your SQL Server instances of version 2012 and later, identifies security ...

Variations on SQL are used by some of the most popular database tools in the world, including some of Oracle's database systems, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft's SQL Server.

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.

The VDT designers were hosted in the Visual InterDev shell and introduced a new database project type that served as a container for Transact SQL (T-SQL) scripts generated by the tools. Before VDT, ...

In the box that appears, specify the SQL Server and database hosting the data to be profiled (I’m using the AdventureWorksLT2012 database) then click OK.

Just like the first option, Beekeeper Studio is a free, open-source, cross-platform, SQL editor and database manager. It supports various databases such as MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

The 2.0 version of Cockroach’s distributed database is aimed at companies transitioning to the cloud that require new capabilities like “geo-partitioning” of data along with the usual performance ...