Microsoft hasn’t announced when it expects to ship SQL Server 2022, but it’s common for new releases to arrive around the time of Microsoft Ignite, which is at the end of October this year.

A Microsoft data platform MVP on the state of SQL Server today -- how it's evolved in Microsoft's Azure-first word, the best features to emerge in recent years and troubleshooting gotchas.

Other improvements include persistent memory (PMEM) support in SQL Server 2019 for Linux, enabling SQL Server to bypass the file system for files on DAX formatted PMEM volumes. There are new TCP/IP ...

Reason No. 3 to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2: StreamInsight StreamInsight is the name for Microsoft's new complex event processing engine, which is implemented as a set of .Net classes.

And you learn a lot about SQL Server in an intense format. I think most folks would rather take these two quick exams, get certified on SQL 2008 then look forward to the three SQL 2012 upgrade exams.

Under SQL Server 7.0, for example, you can specify that logins — both successful and failed — be written to the Windows 2000 (or Windows NT) application log, which you view using the Event Viewer.

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Back to their blog. They take a lot of time to provide lucid and detailed explanations of how the internals within SQL Server work and, most pertinent to this discussion, reveal the mysteries of why ...

Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key changes to licensing a little bit earlier. Don't worry -- they're all ...