Now, McCown knows databases. A senior DBA and author of the blog Database Underground, McCown just finished an in-depth review of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (“SQL Server bulks up”).

Inside the Session What: Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database When: March 12, 2025, 4 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Who: Jerry Nixon, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, and Davide Mauri ...

Here, SQL Server is catching up with competitors such as MongoDB, Google, Oracle, and AWS, which have all added vector search capabilities to their databases over the last 18 months.