On Tuesday Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing for SQL Server 2012 as well as an "evaluation version" for download, with general availability coming April 1. With this release, Microsoft ...

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.

Why SQL Server estates are the fastest path to operating model changeBy Leonardo Boscaro, EMEA Sales Leader, Nutanix DatabaseIssued by NutanixJohannesburg, 26 Feb 2026 Leonardo Boscaro, EMEA Sales ...

“SQL Server 2016 (which will be in public preview this summer) will include . . . the ability to run R within the database itself,” he posted on the Revolutions blog today. “This could make [R] ...

Almost five years had passed the last time Microsoft released an upgraded version of its flagship SQL Server database back in 2005. While SQL Server 2005 was warmly received by IT pros, Microsoft ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

SQL Server 2017 will be generally available next Monday, Oct. 2., Microsoft announced today at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla. That announcement was made by Microsoft exec Scott Guthrie, ...

Microsoft is releasing a public preview of the next version of its SQL Server database, which will work on Linux and Windows, both. Microsoft released a private preview of SQL Server for Linux in ...