Microsoft is changing the way it delivers hot fixes and patches to SQL Server customers.

This isn’t a good month for IT admins to take time off if they want to get ahead of all the patches Microsoft pushed out this ...

Microsoft unveiled an updated line of SQL Server. Offerings include a free entry-level version designed for building simple, data-driven applications; a Workgroup Edition for small to medium-sized ...

Microsoft announced a smorgasbord of updates to its Azure cloud platform today, primarily aimed at helping companies migrate database workloads to its datacenters. These workloads are typically ...

Microsoft has added automated backup and patching for SQL Server databases running in virtual machines on its Azure cloud, in a bid to simplify management and improve reliability.

Microsoft will still place "interim CU 'on-demand' fixes" on its hotfix server, though. Microsoft is even considering the next step to accentuate the importance of cumulative updates for SQL Server.

SQL Server 2017 thus joins the faster service-enabled update approach that's been seen of late with Windows 10, Office 365 ProPlus and even Windows Server 2016, which will start a faster update ...

Microsoft on Monday announced a couple of SQL Server changes, including a change to the delivery schedule for cumulative updates (CUs), along with a change to how slipstreamed media will work for ...

Microsoft Microsoft announces updates to Windows Server, SQL Server and Azure as it pushes deeper into the cloud June 3, 2013 - 3:30 pm ...

Everybody wants their databases to retrieve and store information faster, and with SQL Server 2014, which is released to manufacturing today, Microsoft is tweaking its columnar data store as well as ...