With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

SQL Server, Microsoft's flagship operational database, has been around for over a quarter century now. That has meant successive waves of innovation for the platform, but has also made for ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

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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 ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...