Database revenue at Microsoft is alleged (by Gartner) to be around $14 billion a year, with SQL Server (and Azure SQL services) making up the vast majority of that revenue.

This problem (and Microsoft's lack of investment in high availability in Linux) also really limited the growth of SQL Server on Linux. Some good third-party packages make this far less of a problem.

The tool's Always Encrypted functionality was also improved, as described in another post published by Microsoft yesterday titled " Always Encrypted Assessment in SQL Server Management Studio 21." ...