Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

In recent releases of SQL Server, Microsoft has delivered a great deal of feature enhancements and performance improvements. This rapid delivery has been facilitated by some development changes at ...

SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the ...

Maybe you are still getting up-to-speed with the whole concept of cloud computing. If so, I have a lot of sympathy for you because there is so much to learn and because cloud technologies advance so ...

If your business uses Microsoft SQL Server, you may want to have multiple instances of servers on multiple computers for synchronization or backup purposes. Microsoft SQL Manager lets you accomplish ...

As SQL Server 2005 approaches its scheduled end of life, higher ed must decide what to do with existing SQL Server databases. Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to ...