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 ...

SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise Edition costs roughly $7,000 per CPU core (plus the likely cost of 23 percent for Software Assurance).

Microsoft this month pushed out 133 patches for a broad swatch of software and apps and plugged a zero-day flaw in SQL Server.

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

What Is Ssis And Ssas? the Analysis Service provided by Microsoft SQL Server, a powerful online analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, and reporting tool used by business intelligence companies to ...

SQL Server Drill Down SQL Server Drill Down explores all aspects of Microsoft SQL Server and related applications, with a particular emphasis on issues of interest to SQL Server data professionals.

What Is Sql Server Business Intelligence Edition? A solution to manage and analyze data that is designed for companies of any size, Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence Edition (BI) is a ...

Note: For the purposes of today’s article, I will assume that you’re using SQL Server 2005 or later. Every SQL Server database has at least two files; a data file and a transaction log file.

SQL Server 2022 also features integration with Azure Purview, which assures that the cloud-based data governance platform encompasses SQL Server data, bringing data stored on-premises into its ...

The SQL Server product was originally brought to market jointly by Microsoft and Sybase (now part of SAP). The Sybase builds ran on UNIX while the Microsoft builds ran on Windows and OS/2.