The tool's Always Encrypted functionality was also improved, as described in another post published by Microsoft yesterday titled "Always Encrypted Assessment in SQL Server Management Studio 21." ...

In November, Microsoft released version 18.4 for the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), introducing some key features such as support for materialized view scripts in SQL Data Warehouse.It also ...

The SQL Server database engine has two spatial types – geometry and geography. The geography spatial type helps organize geospatial mapping data into SQL Server tables and works with several ...

Visit the Microsoft SQL Server Samples GitHub repository. Navigate to the "databases" folder. Look for the "northwind-pubs" folder. Click on the "northwind-pubs.bak" file. On the file page, click the ...

Microsoft AdventureWorks Database Analysis and Visualization with PowerBI. It's sample database, I chose 'AdventureWorksLT2019.bak' and 'AdventureWorksLT2017.bak' data for analysis & visualization.

1 Public preview of Python driver is June 1, 2025. The alpha version is available on GitHub today.. 2 According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Comprehensive Vulnerability ...