As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward. As I've ...

TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS, CUSTOMERS, PARTNERS AND EMPLOYEES: It is a humbling experience to write this letter to you as only the third CEO in Microsoft’s history. As I said when I took this role, I ...

PHP's database access functions are not standardized. This creates a need for a database class library to hide the differences between the different databases (encapsulate the differences) so we can ...

When developing database-driven .NET and .NET Core, regardless of the database we intend to deploy in the end, we will often want to work with a database engine that is lightweight and fast, in order ...

Twenty years ago, Nvidia made a calculated decision to expand its focus from gaming to high-performance computing processing. So much of HPC is mathematics, and the GPU is, by design, a massive math ...

Abstract: Just-in-time compilation of SQL queries into native code has recently emerged as a viable technique for query processing and an alternative to the dominant interpretation-based approach. We ...

Azure-enabled with continued performance and security innovation, SQL Server 2022 provides a modern data platform to transform your business. SQL Server 2012 Extended Support ended July 12, 2022.

[!INCLUDEsqlserver] This Release Notes document describes known issues that you should read about before you install or troubleshoot Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2. This Release Notes ...

Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key changes to licensing a little bit earlier. Don't worry -- they're all ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...