When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.

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 ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

DiskANN is a preview feature. Current limitations will be removed in future releases. For more information, see DiskANN vector index in SQL Server 2025. This sample shows how to use the DiskANN vector ...

We recently added support for Active Directory authentication in the SQL Server connector. This has been one of the most requested feedback from our customers. In fact, few customers already noticed ...

SQL Server 2022: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database workhorse that powers both an internal line of business applications and ...

Disk access in Azure sucks. I need to gather useful data to show people that it sucks, because I don't think people will believe me until a customer is on the phone and pissed off. Is resource monitor ...