Learn how to use SQL Server Configuration Manager to configure the Database Engine to listen on a specific fixed port other than the default port, 1433. For more information about the default Windows ...

Sets [!INCLUDEtsql] and query processing behaviors to be compatible with the specified version of the SQL engine. For other ALTER DATABASE options, see ALTER DATABASE. For more information about the ...

A program that accepts SQL commands and accesses the database to obtain the requested data. Users' requests in a query language or database language must be translated into an SQL request before the ...

Google was at the forefront of the NoSQL movement, an effort to build a new breed of database that can spread epic amounts of data across a sea of low-cost servers. But it has now acknowledged that ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...

Security is a longstanding priority for Microsoft across its products and offerings. In fact, SQL Server has pro­duced the fewest security vulnerabilities of all the major database platforms for many ...

In previous columns, we’ve noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) ...

Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced the availability of the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) — a new suite for safely and scalably connecting AI Agents across the ...