Here’s one big advantage to moving to Microsoft Azure SQL Database—you never have to patch. That’s right. The various SKUs available in Azure’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering are automatically ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the tool of choice for most developers working with SQL infrastructure and data. Microsoft recently released SSMS version 22, and in the past few months, it has ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

I'm trying to figure out whether to kill a large series of update operations on a table after discovering that the table doesn't have any of the usual indexes on it. But I can't decide or find ...

Microsoft’s monthly update included 206 fixes for flaws in everything from Windows to Office to Exchange Server, not to ...