As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Microsoft released the first service pack for SQL Server 2016, featuring a consolidation and addition of advanced features across all versions of its flagship relational database management system ...

I had the pleasure to spend some time with my old friend at Microsoft, Mark Souza, while speaking at the SQL Saturday event in Dublin, Ireland. Now keep in mind that Mark and I have known each other ...

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client. SQL Server ...

SQL Server 2016 lost mainstream support this month, on July 13. While you can still run SQL Server 2016 and open support tickets, there will be very few performance updates. In an unusual step, ...

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s support for ...