The big difference with SQL Server, as opposed to many other database-related AI announcements, is that you have complete control of what AI model you use with SQL Server and where you run it.

At Build 2025, Microsoft announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025. SQL Server 2025 now has AI directly integrated into the database engine for improved search.

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago.Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

The success has been mixed at best, and yet Microsoft is trying again. When SQL Server 2012 comes out, so, too, will SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), code name "Juneau," which will provide full-fidelity ...

Before you begin backing up a SQL Server database, you need to know which recovery model the database is using. There are three different recovery models: FULL, BULK_LOGGED, and SIMPLE.

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's ...

But there is one area in which SQL Server 2025 is ahead of the competition, said Aslett: Model management. SQL Server packages model definitions right inside T-SQL, the language used by the database.

SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product, is now available on Linux in the form of an early private preview, with a full launch planned for mid-2017.

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database. The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default ...