Distributed transactions are enabled on SQL Server on Linux by introducing MSDTC and remote procedure call (RPC) endpoint mapper functionality within SQL Server. By default, an RPC endpoint-mapping ...

Learn how to install and configure SQL Server Management Studio, download a SQL Server, and connect them on a Windows 11/10/Server computer..

When I joined the SQL Tools team as a PM back in October 2018, my top priority was to release SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18. I expected a fair amount of work but didn’t realize how ...

Beginning in the 18.7 release of SQL Server Management Studio, Azure Data Studio is installed alongside SSMS automatically. Users of SQL Server Management Studio will be able to benefit from the ...

The MSDTC transaction manager was unable to pull the transaction from the source transaction manager due to communication problems. Possible causes are: a firewall is present and it doesn't have an ...

In November, Microsoft released version 18.4 for the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), introducing some key features such as support for materialized view scripts in SQL Data Warehouse. It also ...