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 ...

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 ...

Mostly lost among the flock of announcements at Microsoft Corp.’s Mix08 Web developer conference last week was the news that Redmond is starting to test a Web database service based on its popular SQL ...

The connector makes it easier to bring data from Microsoft SQL databases into Google Data Studio. The launch of a new Google Data Studio connector isn't typically something to write home about. But ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...

Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements.

Having spent the last article showing how we can use WMI to perform a query for the current space on a drive, we need to take a it a step forward and begin tracking this data in a way that we can then ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

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) ...