I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality.

This data virtualization scenario is possible with the use of PolyBase connectors." First introduced with SQL Server 2016, PolyBase has evolved over the years and with the latest version, SQL Server ...

REDMOND, Wash. — April 18, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of Visual Studio® 2005 Beta 2, Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 and the SQL Server (TM) 2005 April Community ...

Microsoft expects more than 20 customers, including AB Sandvik Coromant, Nationwide Building Society and Austrian Broadcasting Corp. Radio & Television (ORF), to deploy these products before the ...

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3. This version is focused mainly on addressing community feedback and resolved almost 100 tickets. Additionally, there are some new features: an ...

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 won Solid IT's database management system of the year award with MySQL and PostgresSQL as the runners up in the rankings.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.

Microsoft announced late last month that it'll be ending support for two SQL Server capabilities, with cloud services and SQL Server 2022 typically proposed as replacements.