Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies ...

Inside the Session What: Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database When: March 12, 2025, 4 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Who: Jerry Nixon, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, and Davide Mauri ...

Offering a host of different SQL database management and performance analysis tools already found in a lot of the services covered so far, one of the things which helps the diagnostics manager ...

In SQL Server, this feature dates back to SQL Server 2008. It allows administrators to control I/O, memory and CPU with a high degree of granularity, based on incoming user ID or calling program.

It provides suggestions to protect the data and possible ways to secure the data. Labeling: The labeling component tags columns containing sensitive data using classification metadata attributes found ...

Microsoft provided a "sneak preview" of the tool at the recent PASS Summit for SQL Server developers and DBAs, but details remain scant. I, for one, wonder how this new offering will fit into the ...