Credit: Microsoft At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database ...

Cloud SQL will be a managed SQL Server cloud service offered by Google as a “sneak preview,” the company plans to announce Wednesday at Google Cloud Next 2019.

In the cloud era, you may wonder why Microsoft is investing big into an "on-premises" product like SQL Server. It is a complex question I wanted to answer through the lens of some of the new ...

Google Cloud just unveiled a new edition of Cloud SQL, its enterprise-ready, fully managed database service for running MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server workloads. Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus, ...

SQL Server 2022 also includes enhanced support for JSON data, query intelligence for better performance and a Ledger feature that enables blockchain-style tamper-proofing in the database.

While SQL Server introduced support for JSON data in SQL Server 2016, it relied on using the non-optimized NVARCHAR (MAX) data type. While it worked, the functionality was limited, and performance ...

Google says that after today’s update, Cloud SQL will feature throughput rates that are up to seven times faster than the earlier version, and the service will be able to scale to up to 10TB of ...

This shakeup has implications far beyond SQL Server. Here are eight insights into why this matters — for Microsoft, its customers, and the rest of the Linux- and cloud-powered world. 1. This is huge ...