When using SQL Database, you pay-as-you-go with options to scale up or out for greater power with no interruption. SQL Database has some additional features that aren't available in SQL Server, such ...

What Is Sql Server Business Intelligence Edition? A solution to manage and analyze data that is designed for companies of any size, Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence Edition (BI) is a ...

In this section, you will find a brief overview of the new features in SQL Server 2012: New storage features-Columnstore indexes, FileTable. There are several new T-SQL constructs such as sequence ...

Learn about how to run full SQL Server editions on Azure Virtual Machines for Linux. Get direct links to all Linux SQL Server VM images and related content. SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines ...

Today is Microsoft's July 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 137 flaws, including one publicly disclosed ...

At the SQL PASS conference last November, we announced the In-memory OLTP database technology (code-named “Hekaton”) for a future SQL Server release. Microsoft’s technical fellow Dave Campbell’s blog ...

The SQL Server engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate 0. This is an important milestone in the release of SQL Server 2016, as it marks feature ...

Microsoft has clarified the more confusing elements of SQL Server licensing and extended major benefits to customers. The catch is that Software Assurance is required to take advantage of them.