Build 2022 marks the long-awaited public preview of Microsoft's next-generation database engine. Here are the top seven new SQL Server 2022 features to look out for.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 05/24/2022
SQL Server 2022 is nearing a public preview release, Microsoft announced on Monday.
Getting a bird's eye view can help to quickly spot trouble areas.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 02/23/2022
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the "general availability" (GA) commercial release of the Flexible Server deployment option for the Azure Database for PostgreSQL service.
The next major version of Microsoft's flagship database engine is now in private preview. Here's what you need to know about it.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/02/2021
Time to hit the basics and dive into how theSQL Server database engine works.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 10/28/2021
Here's how to fix that performance database query to speed up response time.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 09/28/2021
Microsoft recently described Eclipse Data Connector (EDC) progress, along with its efforts to align cross-organizational data-sharing needs with Europe-based privacy and security laws.
Some SQL Server features are good, some are great -- and some are great only in the right situations and in the right hands. Learn how to spot the difference.
According to a five-year study by California-based security firm Imperva Inc., 46 percent of all global on-premises databases have existing flaws that can be leveraged by outside attackers.
A Microsoft data platform MVP on the state of SQL Server today -- how it's evolved in Microsoft's Azure-first word, the best features to emerge in recent years and troubleshooting gotchas.
Microsoft warned thousands of Azure Cosmos DB users last week that their data may have been exposed through a recently discovered security flaw in Jupyter Notebook.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/30/2021
As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 08/25/2021
As of July 13, SQL Server 2016 no longer has mainstream support. Your next steps as a DBA include understanding Microsoft's support model, knowing the risks of upgrading and then biting the upgrade bullet.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 07/20/2021
Microsoft plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, "starting July 30, 2021."