Choose a SQL Server trial, edition, tool, or connector that best meets your data and workload needs. Get the full-featured free edition, licensed for use as a development and test database in a ...

For example, you can use integrated machine learning services in Managed Instance to run analytics on SQL Server databases replicated to the instance using the link. You can also relay on the ...

Choosing between the standard SQL Server management system and Microsoft’s cloud-powered Azure SQL database is a challenge which many businesses face in the modern era. To help make this simpler ...

Q&A. Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database. By David Ramel; 01/23/2025; Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an ...

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.

In the cloud era, you may wonder why Microsoft is investing big into an "on-premises" product like SQL Server. It is a complex question I wanted to answer through the lens of some of the new ...

The Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is based on the Spark DataSourceV1 API and SQL Server Bulk API and uses the same interface as the built-in JDBC Spark-SQL connector. This allows ...