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 ...

Choose a SQL Server trial, edition, tool, or connector that best meets your data and workload needs. Get the performance and security of SQL Server 2022—a scalable, hybrid data platform—now ...

Microsoft’s Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) for SQL is a real time-saver for IT admins and even DBAs. The tool scans your system, reporting back all configuration settings, complete with very ...

Microsoft is preparing a tool for release with Visual Studio .NET that will tighten the relationship between Microsoft's .NET Web services vision and its existing SQL Server 2000 database.

Other profiling tools have richer features (which you’ll pay for); but a SQL Server licence allows you to use this modest profiling tool at no extra cost. Let’s explore the tool by profiling ...

NetIQ will release Tuesday version 2.0 of its year-old SQL Management Suite, with new features including a revamped user interface in one module and additional reporting tools in another.

ITworld.com – One of the more essential SQL Server tools is its trace utility. With it you can view the activity occurring against a SQL Server for diagnostic, informational, and other purposes.

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.