SQL Server also has separate logs for the SQL Server Agent, as well as other components of the data platform, such as SQL Server Analysis Services. In each case, SQL Server keeps seven rolling log ...

Microsoft also plans to end support in SQL Server 2022 for Cloudera and Hortonworks external data sources. Organizations should switch to SQL Server 2022's "new object storage integration" instead.

Now that SQL Server also has Java within its SQL code, you have a new path to migrate Java applications to SQL Server. Pushing business logic into the database: Teams that are accustomed to developing ...

remote servers are for sql->sql to execute remote stored procedures; linked servers are for sql->any oledb data source (eg. sql server, access, excel, oracle, adsi, exchange, etc. - any data ...

Playing catch-up Microsoft is introducing other capabilities to SQL Server 2025 to facilitate the development of AI-based applications, including JSON support, a Python driver, and change event ...

Like the rest of the SQL Server family, Azure SQL Edge is a relational database with nonrelational capabilities. You can use it for traditional table-based storage, or instead work with JSON ...

Other data-related news out of Day 1 of Build includes private previews of instance-level SQL Server compatibility on Azure SQL DB (to augment today's database-level compatibility), and a new ...