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With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

Detailed list of all discovered (documented and undocumented) Microsoft SQL Server trace flags (610 trace flags). ⚠ REMEMBER: Be extremely careful with trace flags, test in your development ...

Microsoft provided "performance, scalability and diagnostics improvements" in this week's release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3). The company's announcement of the release comes about two ...

The SQL Server team is excited to bring you the final service pack release for SQL Server 2012. The service pack is now available for download on the Microsoft Download Center and will be coming soon ...

Also read: Microsoft's SQL Server Next for Linux, Windows hit public preview Also read: Microsoft's SQL Server Next: What's under the covers The most remarkable thing about SQL Server on Linux is how, ...

One highlight of this roll-up release is the addition of row-level security and dynamic data masking, which were only available in the Enterprise version, are now in Standard, Express, and other ...