PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

SQL Server 2008 has grabbed the headlines but Microsoft has improved SSIS 2008, too. Many new features of SQL Server 2008 have grabbed the headlines in the past year or so but quietly Microsoft has ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

SSIS is a popular and mature tool for performing data movement and cleanup operations. In the Microsoft ecosystem, SSIS is one of the most common extract, load, and transform (ETL) tools in use today.

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 management system (RDBMS) ...

Microsoft announced late last month that it'll be ending support for two SQL Server capabilities, with cloud services and SQL Server 2022 typically proposed as replacements. The SQL Server 2019 Big ...

I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality. I've been ...

Most enterprise applications rely on the database as the persistence mechanism. Integration tests for these applications require data in the database to run correctly. For integration tests to be ...

I've been playing around with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and although many have complained about missing features compared to the "Data Dude" Visual Studio projects and other tools that SSDT ...