Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...
Hi and welcome to Database DevOps Academy #85! We share Database DevOps insights and best practices for modern engineering organizations weekly. 🚩 In Issue #85, we made a thorough comparison between ...
Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...
The SQL interface specification for SAP ecosystem defines a standard document format for describing and publishing metadata of database-level API resources of a (database) server to allow consumers to ...
DBCC CLONEDATABASE command generates a schema-only clone or copy of a database. Effective March 1, 2025, Microsoft will no longer support creating copy of a database using the DBCC CLONEDATABASE ...
Four years ago, I created a Query performance insights library (QPI). This is a T-SQL library that enables troubleshooting and monitoring performance on #AzureSQL #ManagedInstance. While I worked on ...
This tool is currently only supported on Windows and PowerShell. It has not yet been tested on PowerShell Core. It will though work remotely against SQL Server on Linux. NOTE: For SQL Server 2014 and ...
We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The mssql-scripter tool enables developers, DBAs, and sysadmins to generate CREATE and INSERT T ...
SQL, or the structured query language, is a specialized programming language designed for working with databases. There are a few different variations of SQL from different organizations and projects, ...