Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...

Microsoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL engine. With the vendor's Fabric data platform, Database Hub promises a ...

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 ...

Microsoft Fabric is ushering in a new era of database management through its innovative autonomous SQL databases. These innovative databases are designed to streamline your management tasks while ...

Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks. While the embrace of big data, machine learning, and IoT by business enterprises everywhere may ...

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Microsoft's SQL Server Migration Assistant lets you move your data and schema to different SQL Servers. Here's what you need to know about the tool. Image: Dilok/Adobe Stock The Microsoft SQL Server ...

If you work with data — or want to — Microsoft SQL Server is a skill worth having in your back pocket. The 2025 Total Microsoft SQL Server Bundle gives you five courses and 17 hours of practical, real ...

Yesterday, Microsoft's Dave Campbell, a Technical Fellow on the SQL Server team, posted to the SQL Server team blog on the subject of in-memory database technology. Mary Jo Foley, our "All About ...

You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database backups ...