Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises? Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics.

Table-valued parameters are a new data type in SQL Server 2008. TVPs are based on another new SQL Server 2008 feature called User-Defined Table Types (UDTTs). A full discussion of UDTTs is beyond the ...

In relational databases, VARCHAR is one of the most commonly used string data ... SQL Server distinguishes between character types using VARCHAR (non-Unicode) and NVARCHAR (Unicode), while ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.