It was a one-stop tool for enhancing the security of a database server, saving the time of figuring out how to enable various features. You can still lock down SQL Server, but you must now do so with ...

One of the most important differentiators amongst SQL Server 2014 and its earlier counterparts is in the former’s support for in-memory database tables. When our computer systems go slow we ...

In fact, there have been 2,000,000 pulls of the SQL Server for Linux image on Docker Hub,” a repository of Docker container images, said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s ...

Half! Another feature of SQL Server that is poorly understood is the black box recorder. In effect, SQL Server 2005 and later keeps two types of background traces running all the time. The first trace ...

At Microsoft's Ignite 2017 day one keynote today in Orlando, the company announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017, the first version to be offered on Windows Server, Linux, and Docker.

“SQL Server 2017 enables in-database advanced machine learning with support for scalable Python and R-based analytics,” he pointed out, which means “you can train advanced models easily with data ...